@article{ref1,
title="Lateral hypothalamic control of killing: evidence for a cholinoceptive mechanism",
journal="Science",
year="1970",
author="Smith, David E. and King, M. B. and Hoebel, B. G.",
volume="167",
number="3919",
pages="900-901",
abstract="In rats that would not ordinarily kill mice, lateral hypothalamic injection of crystalline carbachol, a cholinomimetic, elicited killing. Norepinephrine, amphetamine, serotonin, and sodium salts were ineffective at the same site. Carbachol was ineffective when injected into the medial, dorsal, or ventral hypothalamus. As additional evidence for a cholinoceptive mechanism, neostigmine elicited killing, and, in spontaneous killers, methyl atropine blocked it. The results indicate that the lateral hypothalamus contains a cholinoceptive component of an innate system that activates killing, and anticholinergic treatment can be used as a means of suppressing killing.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-8075",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}