Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, with over 45 million patients
worldwide, and poses significant economic and emotional burdens to both patients and …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Jay Rosenblatt effectively promoted
research on rabbit maternal behavior through his interaction with colleagues in Mexico …

RF-amide neuropeptides, with their typical Arg-Phe-NH 2 signature at their carboxyl C-
termini, belong to a lineage of peptides that spans almost the entire life tree. Throughout …

The ability to tell time relative to predictable feeding opportunities has a long history of
research, going back more than 100 years with behavioral observations of honeybees and …

Circadian clocks in many brain regions and peripheral tissues are entrained by the daily
rhythm of food intake. Clocks in one or more of these locations generate a daily rhythm of …

Circadian rhythms in many brain regions and peripheral organs can be entrained by daily
feeding schedules. The set of feeding-related signals that entrain peripheral clocks are …

Circadian rhythms are common in many cell types but are reported to be lacking in
embryonic stem cells. Recent studies have described possible interactions between the …

In the newborn rabbit, the light entrainable circadian system is immature and once a day
nursing provides the primary timing cue for entrainment. In advance of the mother's arrival …

Abstract The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a widely used model in
fundamental, medical and veterinary neurosciences. Besides investigations in adults, rabbit …

Adult rabbits show robust circadian rhythms of: nursing, food and water intake, hard faeces
excretion, locomotion, body temperature, blood and intraocular pressure, corticosteroid …