Research Fellowship

Serotonergic mechanism of the lateral parabrachial nucleus and relaxin-induced sodium intake

JV Menani, SP Barbosa, MJ McKinley, JD Wade, LA De Luca

2004-12-24

It has been shown that central or peripheral injections of the peptide relaxin induces water intake, not sodium intake in rats. Im..

Vasopressin secretion: Osmotic and hormonal regulation by the lamina terminalis

MJ McKinley, ML Mathai, RM McAllen, RC McClear, RR Miselis, GL Pennington, L Vivas, JD Wade, BJ Oldfield

2004-04-01

The lamina terminalis, located in the anterior wall of the third ventricle, is comprised of the subfornical organ, median preoptic..

Physiological and pathophysiological influences on thirst

MJ McKinley, MJ Cairns, DA Denton, G Egan, ML Mathai, A Uschakov, JD Wade, RS Weisinger, BJ Oldfield

2004-01-01

Thirst motivates animals to seek fluid and drink it. It is regulated by the central nervous system and arises from neural and chem..

Neural correlates of the emergence of consciousness of thirst

G Egan, T Silk, F Zamarripa, J Williams, P Federico, R Cunnington, L Carabott, J Blair-West, R Shade, M McKinley, M Farrell, J Lancaster, G Jacksons, P Fox, D Denton

2003-12-09

Thirst was induced by rapid i.v. infusion of hypertonic saline (0.51 M at 13.4 ml/min). Ten humans were neuroimaged by positron-em..