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Science 31 May 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3831, pp. 1017 - 1018
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3831.1017
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Neurohumoral Interaction in the Rat Amygdala after Central Chemical Stimulation

G. Singer 1 and R. B. Montgomery 1

1 School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia 2122

The interactions of chemically induced thirst and hunger with deprivation-induced hunger and thirst, respectively, were studied in the amygdala. The results suggest direct neurohumoral blocking at this locus, rather than mediation through activated circuits.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Histochemical Fluorescence as an Index of Spread of Centrally Applied Neurochemicals.
R. B. Montgomery, G. Singer, A. Routtenberg, and W. Bondareff (1969)
Science 165, 1031-1032
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