Abstract
Intact and abdominally vagotomized rats were offered for ingestion during a 30-min period a saccharin and glucose solution or another with 0.1 M mannitol added. The addition of mannitol to the test solution caused a large reduction in intake of intact rats caused by a very rapid decline in the rate of licking during the test. This did not occur with the vagotomized rats. This demonstrates that abdominal vagal nerves are necessary for the inhibitory effect of mannitol on the ingestive behavior of rats. Vagotomized rats also differed from the intact ones by ingesting less of the mannitol-free solution. This was suggested to result from accelerated gastric clearance, leading to abnormally rapid stimulation of negative feedback from the small intestine conveyed to the CNS by extravagal pathways.
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