Abstract
The purpose of this experiment was to explore the effects of pinealectomy or sham pinealectomy on circadian rhythms of taste preferences, food and fluid intake and body weight gain in rats. We compared the body weight gain, the amounts of food eaten and that of deionized water, total fluid, salt, sour, sweet and bitter near-threshold solutions consumed by rats before all surgical manipulations and after pinealectomy or sham pinealectomy. The results showed that the pineal gland does not exert a major influence on circadian organization of taste preferences, drinking, feeding and body weight modifications in the rat. The failure of pinealectomy to modify light/dark rhythms of taste preferences and other related alimentary behaviors may be explained by the fact that pinealectomy does not completely eliminate circulating melatonin.
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