Leptin administration has been shown to prevent the disruptive effects of acute food deprivation on reproductive function in cycling females and lactating females. We examined the ability of intracerebroventricular leptin administration to ameliorate the effects of food restriction for the first 2 wk postpartum on length of lactational infertility. Leptin administration did not reduce the effec...

Schreuder, Michiel F., Jens R. Nyengaard, Floor Remmers, Joanna AE van Wijk, and Henriette A. Delemarre-van de Waal. Postnatal food restriction in the rat as a model for a low nephron endowment. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 291: F1104–F1107, 2006. First published June 13, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00158.2006.—A low nephron endowment may be associated with hypertension. Nephrogenesis is the proce...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The current paper reviews recent research on perceptions of food addiction in the lay public. It also examines the potential consequences of such beliefs for eating behaviour. RECENT FINDINGS Surveys suggest that, within community samples, the majority of individuals believe that certain foods are addictive, and that food addiction causes obesity. Further, many people believ...

Feeding restriction, as a trigger for compensatory growth, might be considered an alternative viable strategy for minimizing waste as well as production costs. The study assessed whether juvenile redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (initial weight 0.99 ± 0.03 g) was able to compensate for feeding restriction at different temperatures (23 ± 1, 27 ± 1 and 31 ± 1 ° C). Hyperphagia, food utiliz...

Mild food restriction for 48 h inhibits mating behavior in female musk shrews (Suncus murinus). However, mating behavior is restored after a 90-min feeding bout. In this series of experiments, we examined the role of metabolic fuels in this behavioral restoration. First, drugs reported to block glycolysis or fatty acid oxidation were given 2 h before mating. Both treatments inhibited mating in ...