Control of food intake Flashcards
What starts to expand when you eat?
→ The fundic area expands to accomodate food
What two hormones are used in accommodation?
→ VIP and NO
What is PYY and what does it do?
→ Is is a satiety factor and increases gut motility
What do you feel when emptying occurs?
→ A sense of hunger (ghrelin)
Where do contractions occur and what are they mediated by?
→ Occur in the antrum
→ Mediated by AcH
What relaxation occurs when food is swallowed?
→ Receptive relaxation
What is receptive relaxation done by?
→ Vagal innervation
What kind of relaxation occurs in the stomach to allow accommodation?
→ adaptive relaxation
What is CCK stimulated by?
→ Lipids
What is affected if you cut vagus nerves?
→ Accommodation
→ Gastric compliance
What is the difference between appetite and hunger?
→ Appetite is a psychological desire
→ Hunger is a physiological craving
What is hyperphagia/polyphagia?
→ Abnormal desire for food
What does the hypothalamus control?
→ Hunger + thirst
Functions of the prefrontal cortex
→ Food seeking
→ Integration of sensory information from inside and outside the body
→ Receives emotional + cognitive information from the limbic system
→ Makes choices by translating the homeostatic and environmental information into adaptive behavioral responses,
What is the limbic system?
→ Complex system of nerves and networks in the brain
associated with instinct and mood
What sites is feeding behavior modulated by?
→ Lateral hypothalamus
→ Ventromedial hypothalamus
What is the role of the lateral hypothalamus?
→Hunger + thirst center
What is the role of the ventromedial nucleus ?
→ Satiety center
What happens if there is a lesion to the VMN?
→ Increased appetite with weight gain
What does the dorsomedial nucleus do?
→ Modulates energy intake (hunger center)
What acts on the dorsomedial nucleus to increase feeding?
→ NPY into the DMN increases feeding
What does the paraventricular nucleus do?
→ Modulates feeding behavior
What does the arcuate nucleus produce?
→ Orexigenic signals