lean tissue degradation. Body fat provides the major energy reservoir. The horse’s body systems will mobilize fat for fuel when energy needs are greater than the daily energy intake. As the time period of inadequate nutrition is prolonged, fat stores are depleted and noticeable amounts of muscle are broken down for use as energy. There is no uniformly agreed upon benchmark as to what constitute...

BACKGROUND Refeeding syndrome (RFS) is a common, yet underappreciated, constellation of electrolyte derangements that typically occurs in acutely ill, malnourished hospitalised patients who are administered glucose solutions or other forms of intravenous or enteral nutrition. DISCUSSION The hallmark of RFS is hypophosphataemia, but hypokalaemia and hypomagnesaemia are also common. Patients wi...

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Refeeding syndrome (RFS) describes the biochemical changes, clinical manifestations, and complications that can occur as a consequence of feeding a malnourished catabolic individual. RFS has been recognised in the literature for over fifty years and can result in serious harm and death. Crude estimates of incidence, morbidity, and mortality are available for specific populations. RFS can occur ...

Refeeding a carbohydrate-rich meal after a fast produces a co-ordinated induction of key glycolytic and lipogenic genes in the liver. The transcriptional response is mediated by insulin and increased glucose oxidation, and both signals are necessary for optimal induction of FAS (fatty acid synthase). The glucose-regulated component of FAS promoter activation is mediated in part by ChREBP [ChoRE...

The mechanism of liver glycogen synthesis after refeeding has been investigated in diabetic rats, diabetic insulin-treated rats, and in control rats fasted for 48 h. The accumulation of liver glycogen was the same in diabetic rats and in control rats after 2 h of feeding, but did not proceed any further in the diabetic group during the next 2 h. Insulin-treated diabetic rats synthesized five ti...

Malonyl-CoA acutely regulates fatty acid oxidation in liver in vivo by inhibiting carnitine palmitoyltransferase. Thus rapid increases in the concentration of malonyl-CoA, accompanied by decreases in long-chain fatty acyl carnitine (LCFA-carnitine) and fatty acid oxidation have been observed in liver of fasted-refed rats. It is less clear that it plays a similar role in skeletal muscle. To exam...

Previously, 40% food restriction of male Siberian hamsters over 21 days in short-day (SD) photoperiod induced characteristic changes in expression of hypothalamic arcuate nucleus energy balance genes; mRNAs for neuropeptide Y, agouti-related peptide, and leptin receptor were upregulated, and those of proopiomelanocortin and cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript were depressed. The prese...

Refeeding starved rats for 2-3 h completely reverses the effects of starvation on hepatic ketogenic capacity [ 11 and decreases blood ketone body concentrations markedly [2]. However, acute depression of ketogenesis on refeeding is not accompanied by any reversal of changes (induced by starvat ion) in carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT ) I during the first 6 h o f refeeding [2, 31, indicating ...