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RESEARCH ARTICLE

An Attempt to Produce Hyperphagia in Sheep by Electrical Damage to the Hypothalamus

EG Holmes and FJ Fraser

Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 18(2) 345 - 352
Published: 1965

Abstract

Attempts to produce hyperphagia in sheep by establishing electrolytic lesions in the region of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus have been uniformly unsuccessful. The possible implications of this are discussed.

https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9650345

© CSIRO 1965

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