Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the State Education Commission of China.
A growing body of research data showed a multitude of visceral and affective responsesfollowing cerebellar stimulation or cerebellar lesion. These findings implicate that, besidesits somatic function, the cerebellum m...
Project supported by the World Health Organization.
In recent years, the importance of hypothalamic defence area (HDA) has attracted more and more attention. Many researchers demonstrated that HDA plays a very important role in cardiovascular and behavioral regulations...
Our previous study has shown that blood luteinizing hormone (LH) level dropped promptly after acute starvation, but pituitary LH level remained stable and the clearance of LH from circulation as well as the binding of...
Project supported by the Science Fund of Academia Sinica (82, No. 100).
Previous studies ia our laboratory have shown that hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC),locus coeruleus (LG) and dorsal raphe nucleus (DR) play an important role in pain modulation and acupuncture analgesia, There is su...
The medial hypothalamus is implicated in the regulation of adenohypophyseal secretion as well as in the integration of feeding, emotion and autonomic functions. Recently, many authors have reported that the hypothalam...
Most authors believed that the spinal cord was not directly connected with the hypothalamus. However, direct hypothalamo-spinal projection has been discovered recently in several species by means of the horseradish pe...
The effects of hypothalamus on various effector organs are mediated through hypophysis and many neural substrates. Most descending projections of the hypothalamus do not go beyond midbrain. Thus the midbrain is consid...