The melanocortin receptor (MC3-R and MC4-R) antagonist, agouti-related protein (AGRP), is a potent stimulant of food intake. We examined the effect of chronic intracerebroventricular (ICV) AGRP treatment on energy metabolism and pituitary function in ad libitum fed rats and rats administered AGRP and then pair-fed to a saline control group. Chronic ICV AGRP (83-132) administration (1 nmol/day f...

The natural diet of free-ranging horses is grass, which is typically high in fiber and calorically dilute, however diets for high performance domestic horses are often low in fiber and calorically dense. The aim of the study was to determine the motivation of horses for hay when fed a low roughage diet. Their motivation could be used to determine if low roughage diets compromise the welfare of ...

A total of 190 rabbit females were used to evaluate five feeding programmes from 9 weeks of age to the first parturition: CAL, fed ad libitum with a control diet (C: 11.0 MJ digestible energy (DE) and 114 g digestible protein (DP)/kg dry matter (DM)) until first parturition; CR, fed ad libitum with C diet until 12 weeks of age and then C diet restricted (140 g/day) until first parturition; F, f...

Multiple periods of caloric restriction (or fasting)/ refeeding in rodents have had inconsistent effects on mammary tumor (MT) development. In the present study, the consequence of intermittent caloric restriction/ refeeding resulting in weight-cycling was evaluated using an oncogene-induced MT mouse model. Hybrid mouse MT virus-transforming growth factor (MMTV-TGF)/ Lep Lep female mice were us...

this experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of probiotic supplementation and feed restriction on growth response in broiler chickens. for this purpose, 336 male broiler chickens of ross 308 were used. after housing, broilers allocated to experimental pens in a completely randomized design with factorial 2×3 arrangement. first and second groups considered as positive control group wit...