Control Mechanisms of Drinking

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Section 1. Introduction.
• Thirst and Sodium Appetite in the Regulation of the Body Fluids.
• Section 2. Oropharyngeal and Gastric Influences in Drinking.
• Lingual Stimulation and Water Intake.
• Systemic Versus Oral and Gastrointestinal Metering of Fluid Intake.
• Reduction of Saline Intake in Adrenalectomized Rats during Chronic Intragastric Infusions of Saline.
• Section 3. Vasopressin and Drinking.
• Mechanisms of Hypovolaemic Thirst and Interactions between Hypovolaemia, Hyperosmolality and the Antidiuretic System.
• A Radioimmunoassay for Plasma Antidiuretic Hormone and Its Application in a Case of Hypopituitarism Associated with a Loss of Thirst.
• Studies on Drinking-Feeding Interactions in Rats with Hereditary Hypothalamic Diabetes Insipidus.
• Section 4. Comparative Aspects of the Regulation of Water Intake.
• Cellular Dehydration as a Stimulus to Drinking in the Common Iguana, Iguana Iguana.
• Section 5. Catecholaminergic Mechanisms and Peripheral Aspects of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Drinking.
• Brain Catecholamines and Thirst.
• Noradrenergic and Dopaminergic Influences on Thirst.
• The Effects of Angiotensin II, Renin and Isoprenaline on Drinking in the Dog.
• The Elevation of Endogenous Angiotensin and Thirst in the Dog.
• Evidence against the Postulated Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Putative Renin-Dependent Drinking Responses.
• Relationships between Increase in Plasma Renin Activity and Drinking Following Different Types of Dipsogenic Stimuli.
• Drinking Induced by Direct or Indirect Stimulation of Beta-Receptors: Evidence for Involvement of the Renin-Angiotensin System.
• Section 6. Central Mechanisms in ReninAngiotensin-Induced Drinking.
• Renin, Angiotensin and Drinking.
• The Mechanism of Thirst-Induction by Intrahypothalamic Renin.
• Angiotensin as Dipsogen.
• The Role of the Cerebral Ventricular System in Angiotensin-Induced Thirst.
• Subfornical Organ Involvement in Angiotensin-Induced Drinking.
• Evidence that the Lateral Hypothalamus and Midbrain Participate in the Drinking Response Elicited by Intracranial Angiotensin.
• Angiotensin-Induced Drinking in the Cat.
• Section 7. Salt Appetite.
• Central Mediation of Water and Sodium Intake: A Dual Role for Angiotensin?.
• Conditioned and Pseudoconditioned Thirst and Sodium Appetite.
• Thirst and Salt Appetite in Experimental Renal Hypertension of Rats.
• Section 8. Other Aspects of Thirst.
• Classical Conditioning of Consumatory Behaviour.
• The Chemical and Behavioural Specificity of Cholinergic Stimulation of the Tractus Diagonalis.
• Increased Drinking in Rats After Isoniazid Withdrawal.
• Section 9. Conclusions.
• Summary and Comment.
• Outlook.
• Author Index.