Bates HE, Sirek A, Kiraly MA, Yue JT, Riddell MC, Matthews SG, Vranic M. Adaptation to intermittent stress promotes maintenance of -cell compensation: comparison with food restriction. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 295: E947–E958, 2008. First published August 19, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.90378.2008.—Intermittent restraint stress delays hyperglycemia in ZDF rats better than pair feeding. We hyp...

Numerous changes in human lifestyle in modern life increase the risk of disease. Especially, modern sleep and dietary habits are crucial factors affecting lifestyle disease. In terms of sleep, decreases in total sleep time and in rapid eye movement sleep time have been observed in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients. From a dietary perspective, mastication during eating has...

Previous studies suggest that urine-borne pheromones play an important role in lobster agonistic and sexual behaviour. This paper investigates the pattern of urine release in catheterised, but otherwise freely moving, adult lobsters with respect to feeding, social and non-social activities. Lobsters on average released 4.1 ml (1 % of body mass) of urine over a 12 h period; this more than double...

Intermittent fasting decreases glucose and insulin levels and increases insulin sensitivity and lifespan. Decreased food intake influences the liver. Previous studies have shown gender differences in response to various types of caloric restriction, including every-other-day (EOD) feeding, in humans and rodents. Our goal was to show the influence of prolonged EOD feeding on the morphology, prol...