Taste and appetite

Calcium: taste, intake, and appetite.

This review summarizes research on sensory and behavioral aspects of calcium homeostasis. These are fragmented fields, with essentially independent lines of research involving gustatory electrophysiology in amphibians, ethological studies in wild birds, nutritional studies in poultry, and experimental behavioral studies focused primarily on characterizing the specificity of the appetite in rats...

Benzodiazepines, appetite, and taste palatability.

Benzodiazepine agonists stimulate feeding in animals. This paper reviews evidence which indicates that benzodiazepine-induced feeding is due to a specific enhancement of the perceived palatability of food and fluids, and is not a mere secondary consequence of anxiety reduction. In studies of the effect of benzodiazepines on affective reactions that are naturally elicited from rats by tastes, we...

Taste and appetite regulation in the elderly.

The Belgian mathematician Quetelet (1835) in his treatise on human development wrote ‘Man is born, grows up and dies according to laws which have never been properly investigated either as a whole or in the mode of their mutual reactions’, thereby reinforcing our awareness that ageing is an inevitable and natural process in life but that this process is not well-understood. Quetelet (1 835) mad...

Taste and appetite in infancy: possible topics for research.

Phosphorus appetite in sheep: dissociating taste from postingestive effects.

We hypothesized that lambs discriminate the postingestive effects of P and associate those effects with feed flavor to modify feed choices. Three predictions were tested based on this hypothesis: 1) lambs will modify preference for arbitrary flavors eaten during intraruminal infusions of NaH2PO4, 2) changes in preferences are more specific than changes in osmotic load induced by salts of Na; an...