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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"food-anticipatory activity"”.
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Restriction of Food Intake by Dorsomedial Hypothalamus
… deficient ob/ob mice eat voraciously and their food intake is markedly reduced by leptin treatment. Leptin acts in part by regulating the activity of AGRP neurons and POMC neurons in the arcuate nucleus and neurons in other brain regions. In these dissertation, I will describe how we identify …
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Effects of dietary macronutrient profile and feeding frequency on circulating metabolites, postprandial endocrine response, and voluntary physical activity of healthy adult cats
… prevalence of highly palatable commercial pet foods, a sedentary indoor lifestyle, and inappropriate feeding strategies largely contribute to obesity in cats. This dissertation focused on diet composition and feeding strategies to understand how dietary factors may affect appetite regulation, …
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Time-Memory Behavior Yields Energetically Optimal Foraging Strategy in Honey Bees.
… showed that foragers trained to collect food at a fixed time of day return the following day with a remarkable degree of time-accuracy. A series of field experiments revealed that not all foragers return to a food source on unrewarded test days. Rather, there exist two subgroups: …