The effect of chlorpromazine on food intake in the albino rat.

Abstract

Rats were given chlorpromazine subcutaneously (in dosages ranging from 0.2 to 1.0 mg.) 1 hr. after a half-hour feeding period, and food intake was measured in another half-hour period starting 20 min. later. At all doses food intake was greater than for a saline control injection. This finding is consistent with other evidence which suggests that chlorpromazine has an inhibitory effect on the ventromedial hypothalamus. From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:3DK54R. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)