Body weight and daily food intake in captive shrews

Deficits in gastrointestinal responses controlling food intake and body weight.

The gastrointestinal tract serves as a portal sensing incoming nutrients and relays mechanical and chemosensory signals of a meal to higher brain centers. Prolonged consumption of dietary fat causes adaptive changes within the alimentary, metabolic, and humoral systems that promote a more efficient process for energy metabolism from this rich source, leading to storage of energy in the form of ...

The effects of morphine and nicotine co-administration on body weight, food intake and appetite-regulating peptides in rats

Previous studies in humans and animals have reported that nicotine administration decreases body weightand caloric intake. Opiate and cigarette have been used concomitantly as drug abuse. The aim of the present study was, therefore, to analyze the effect of chronic co-administration of nicotine and morphine on food intake, body weight and on some feeding-associated peptides. All experiments wer...

Leptin and the Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight.

Body Weight and Food Intake of Broiler and Leghorn Chicks

Age of market weight of broilers has been continuously reduced by approximately one day per generation during the past 40 50 years due to an average increase of 50 g/year of body weight at 42 days of age (Gyles, 1989). Although non-genetic factors such as improved feeding and management contributed to this growth rate increase, genotypic selection for growth seems to be the major cause (Chamber...

Regulation of food intake and body weight by recombinant proghrelin.

Ghrelin is a 28-amino-acid hormone derived from the endoproteolytic processing of its prehormone proghrelin. Although ghrelin has been reported to regulate food intake and body weight, it is still unknown whether proghrelin exercises any biological function. Here we show that recombinant proghrelin alters food intake and energy metabolism in mice. After intraperitoneal administration of recombi...