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Sodium appetite: some conceptual and methodologic aspects of a model drive system

1974; Academic Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0091-6773(74)91654-x

1557-8267

George Wolf, John McGovern, Leo V. DiCara,

Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling

The study of many fundamental problems of motivation may be facilitated by the utilization of sodium appetite as a model drive system. This paper summarizes the current state of knowledge of the behavioral, physiological, and, particularly, neurological mechanisms of sodium appetite and discusses a number of unique methodological and theoretical features which render sodium appetite especially amenable to laboratory investigation. A simple and reliable screening procedure for assessing deficits in sodium appetite after neurological damage is presented, and three techniques for acute elicitation of sodium appetite are compared.