Abstract
C.P. Richter tried for a number of years to identify the physiological substrate underlying the endogenous generation of circadian rhythms in rats. After attempting a variety of neural and endocrine ablations, he reported the successful abolition of freerunning rhythms of activity, eating and drinking by lesions in the hypothalamus. He did not identify the locus of the effective lesions except to indicate that they were near the “ventral median nucleus” of the hypothalamus (Richter 1967).
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Rusak, B. (1982). Physiological Models of the Rodent Circadian System. In: Aschoff, J., Daan, S., Groos, G.A. (eds) Vertebrate Circadian Systems. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68651-1_7
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