title: [Morphofunctional state of the neurocytes of the hypothalamic food centers in fasting rats].
abstract: Considerable changes in the size of neurocyte perikaryons, nuclei and nucleoli, and ratios between these values were detected in the hypothalamic food centres of rats fasting for 1, 2, or 3 days. A certain similarity was observed between the reactions of neurocytes of the hypothalamus starvation and saturation centres to starvation: the neurocyte perikaryon and nuclei increased in size and the relative size of the nucleoli decreased. The following differences in the time course of changes were observed: neurocyte perikaryons and nuclei grew in size during fasting, and the size of the ventromedial nucleus decreased. A possible relationship between the detected structural changes and neurocyte function in the studied hypothalamic centres is discussed.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005215:Fasting; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology; D007026:Hypothalamic Area, Lateral / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors; D014697:Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Morfofunktsional'noe sostoianie neĭrotsitov pishchevykh tsentrov gipotalamusa pri golodanii u krys.