A technique is described for permanently implanting a cannula in the lateral ventricle of the rat, and the effects on certain physiological drives of various substances injected by this route were investigated.
Food intake was significantly reduced by intraventricular glucose, while intra-ventricular fructose, insulin, glucagon and a lipid-mobilizing agent were without effect. Drinking was elicited by hypertonic saline and suppressed by hypotonic solutions. The intake of salt was not effected by intraventricular low-sodium solutions. Intraventricular procaine, but not alcohol, induced an akinetic state. Intraventricular glucose failed to relieve hypoglycaemic coma.
The significance of some of these findings is discussed in relation to the hypothalamic regulation of hunger.
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