Abstract
To test the hypothesis that the effects of 4th ventricle bombesin (BN) injection on feeding require interaction with forebrain neural systems, intraoral sucrose (0.1 M) was measured in tube-fed control and tube-fed supracollicular decerebrate rats after 4th ventricle injections of 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 ng BN. Fourth ventricle injections of all doses of BN reliably suppressed sucrose intake in both control and chronic decerebrate rats. These results indicate that caudal brain stem afferent signals produced by 4th ventricle BN injections are integrated by the local neural circuitry of the caudal brain stem, independent of the forebrain systems, to modulate ingestive behavior.
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