Animals eat different amounts of different diets, which implies that they recognize some quality or qualities of the diet. Both Cowgill' and Adolph1 were aware of this problem, but no one appears to have made a systematic attempt to define the dietary quality recognized by animals. Both of these workers were led to the opinion that their animals seemed to "eat for calories," i.e., for energy. H...

objective: fragile x syndrome is the second etiology for inherited mental retardation. it may concomitant with other psychiatric disorders. intellectual disability (id) is a state of functioning that typically begins in childhood and is characterized by limitations in intelligence and adaptive skills. we intend to introduce a male young patient with fragile x syndrome and obsessive-compulsive d...

Title: Altered lipid homeostasis in Drosophila InsP3 receptor mutants leads to obesity and hyperphagia Running title: Calcium signaling and obesity