to determine the extent to which acute starvation might contribute to the chronic deficits in regulatory feeding , drinking , and body weight maintenance characteristic of rats with lateral hypothalamic brain lesions , neurologically intact rats were pair-fed ( including forced feedings ) and pair-watered for 2-4 wk with rats rendered transiently aphagic and adipsic by hypothalamic knife cuts .
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