The hormone leptin is known to robustly suppress food intake by acting upon the leptin receptor (LepR) signaling system residing within the agouti-related protein (AgRP) neurons …
SI Martire, N Holmes, RF Westbrook, MJ Morris - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Rats prefer energy-rich foods over chow and eat them to excess. The pattern of eating elicited by this diet is unknown. We used the behavioral satiety sequence to classify …
Hyperphagia is a reported side effect of anxiolytic benzodiazepines such as chlordiazepoxide (CDP). Prior research has focused primarily on the ingestive responses to …
Y Han, Y He, L Harris, Y Xu, Q Wu - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Diet-induced obesity is characterized by unsatiated consumption of energy-dense diets and impaired metabolism, whereby anti-obesity effect of the high-level of circulating leptin is …
The modern diet contains a variety of energy-rich, highly palatable and readily available foods. The consumption of such foods may have contributed to the increased prevalence of …