title: Nucleus accumbens lesion does not affect schedule induced polydipsia.
abstract: Rats with lesion of nucleus accumbens were hypodipsic under free-feeding conditions. In schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) tests conducted by reducing the rats to 70% of free-feeding body weight and delivering 60 mg bengal gram pellets on a fixed time 1-min schedule, nucleus accumbens lesions did not delay the acquisition or show a decrease in the maintenance of S.I.P.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, JIPMER, Pondicherry.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Balraj
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barathi
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Thombre
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004326:Drinking; D008297:Male; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar