--- abstract: 'Previous research has shown that parturitionally experienced rats with lateral hypothalamic (LH) lesions that rendered them otherwise aphagic, still ate placenta when it was delivered (pregnant subjects) or presented (nonpregnant subjects). Subsequent studies have shown that some virgin rats are spontaneously attracted to donor placenta, whereas the others clearly avoid it. The present study was designed to demonstrate that the sparing of placentophagia after LH lesions observed in the earlier study was not due merely to the previous ingestion of placenta, per se, or to inadvertent selection for spontaneous placentophages. Virgin placentophages were allowed to consume donor placenta; some were then bred. Prior to parturition or after an equivalent time interval, LH lesions were produced through indwelling electrodes. The next day, not only were the animals with properly placed lesions aphagic to a cookie/milk mash,but none ate delivered or presented placenta.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - noonan@canisius.edu - kristal@buffalo.edu creators_name: - family: Noonan given: Michael honourific: Dr. lineage: '' - family: Kristal given: Mark B. honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 1978 date_type: published datestamp: 2013-09-17 14:28:01 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/89/87 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 8987 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/8987/1/LH.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'placentophagia, lateral hypothalamus, ingestion, parturition, placenta' lastmod: 2013-09-17 14:28:01 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2 pagerange: 140-142 pubdom: TRUE publication: Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society publisher: The Psychonomic Society refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 10 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2013-09-17 14:28:01 subjects: - behav-neuro-sci - physio-psy - psycphs succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Nonparturitional exposure to donor placenta and placentophagia after lateral hypothalamic lesions in rats type: journalp userid: 88 volume: 12