Insulin hypothalamic action interfering in its own secretion by the pancreas

• Grant number: 11/10295-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Mario Jose Abdalla Saad
• Grantee: Cristiano Novack Amaral Pereira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Insulin will be administered into rats hypothalamus through canulation proccess in order to observe the changes in insulin secretion by the pancreas. The path taken for this hypothalamus-pancreas regulation proccess is also of interest, so vagotomy and sympathectomy will also be done.