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7 - Food-Associated Drinking and Nycthemeral Rhythms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2021

Neil E. Rowland
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University of Florida
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In free-feeding animals, including humans, most daily water consumption is prandial, occurring during or soon after meals. In contrast to earlier interpretations, it now appears that this drinking has a systemic basis and is not purely anticipatory. Those systemic changes include small increases in osmolality, especially in hepatic portal regions, or decreased plasma volume with increase in plasma ANG II, and together these may be suprathreshold for initiation of drinking. In addition, release of histamine during eating may promote prandial drinking. Because feeding and thus associated drinking normally have a species-typical nycthemeral rhythm, studies of drinking at different times of day are potentially informative. Despite many studies in this regard, it is not fully clear whether osmotic (and/or volumetric) mechanisms for initiation of drinking and/or termination of drinking have different thresholds at different times of day. Recent work has shown a direct pathway from the suprachiasmatic nucleus (master clock) to the OVLT, which suggests at least the potential for direct clock influences on osmoregulation. I speculate that nycthemeral changes in body temperature may also affect the sensitivity of osmoreceptive and/or other elements of drinking circuitry in the brain.

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Thirst and Body Fluid Regulation
From Nephron to Neuron
, pp. 117 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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