CALL FOR PAPERS Physiological Regulation of Appetite Measuring meals: structure of prandial food and water intake of rats
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Eric P. Zorrilla, Koki Inoue, Éva M. Fekete, Antoine Tabarin, Glenn R. Valdez, and George F. Koob Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan; Institute of Physiology, Pecs University Medical School, Pecs, Hungary; and Laboratoire EA 3666 Homéostasie-Allostasie-Pathologie, Université de Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
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Measuring meals: structure of prandial food and water intake of rats.
Attempts to understand ingestion have sought to understand the control of meals. The present study evaluated a meal definition that included prandial drinking (drinking-explicit meals). The spontaneous nocturnal intake of male Wistar rats was studied. The meal breakpoint was defined as the interval between feeding or drinking events providing the most stable estimate of meal structure. Alternat...
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