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Understanding the ultimate and proximate mechanisms of spadefoot tadpole developmental polyphenism is the first step in gaining a mechanistic and evolutionary understanding of the factors responsible for the control and evolution of...
Alcohol abuse is more prevalent in populations in which sleep deprivation is more common including shift workers and older individuals. While much research has investigated the impact of alcohol use and abuse on sleep quality, little is...
Visceral feedback from the body plays an important role in guiding motivated behaviors. For example, sensory information from the gut during a state of negative energy balance reduces innate avoidance and anxiety-like behaviors. These...
The metabolic state of an organism and their sense of olfaction are closely interrelated. There is significant evidence that olfactory signals can modulate multiple metabolic parameters and, in turn, that metabolically relevant signals...
The perception of food involves input from different sensory modalities. In addition to taste input, other sensory cues like olfaction, texture, and temperature are involved with the flavor properties in ingestive behavior. Of these...
Spiny lobsters (Family Palinuridae) are large, diverse, and abundant marine crustaceans, which have conquered tropical, subtropical, and temperate coastal waters around the globe despite strong predation pressure. The mechanisms and...
Chromatin profiling in single cells has been extremely challenging and almost exclusively limited to histone proteins. In cases where single cell methods have shown promise, many require highly specialized equipment or cell type specific...
In preclinical research, females are often excluded because of the presumed variability associated with the cyclic fluctuations of the estrous cycle and pregnancy. But how much variability in biological data actually occurs as a result...
The 6.8 billion base pairs of human DNA must be packaged into chromatin to fit into the nucleus. The nucleosome, approximately 150 bp of genomic DNA wrapped 1.65 times around the histone octamer, is the fundamental unit of chromatin....
The detection of salty taste stimuli depends on two salt-sensing transduction pathways that involve membrane channels on the surface of fungiform taste bud cells located on the anterior tongue in rats. These two pathways are the...
Chemical signals are an important mode of communication and behavior regulation in many mammalian species. Non-volatile signals are sent by one animal and received by a second animal, typically of the same species. They are detected by...
The most potent, naturally occurring estrogen, estradiol, is involved in the physiological control of food intake. Estradiol appears to exert its anorexigenic effect by activating nuclear estrogen receptors (ERs), which are expressed...
Obesity is a pervasive public health concern that is associated with several comorbidities like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Abdelaal, le Roux, & Docherty, 2017; Fruh, 2017; Pi-Sunyer, 2009; Williams, Mesidor, Winters, ...
Complex organelles, such as cilia and flagella, play an integral part in how a cell interacts with the environment. The model system Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a biflagellate alga that uses its flagella for swimming and sensing the...
We determined the influence of thermonuetrality on the oxygen consumption (VO2) and heart rate (HR) responses to short-term moderate fat feeding in male C57BL/6J (B6; obesity-prone) mice and A/J (obesity-resistant) mice. Mice were...
The endocannabinoid system plays an important role in regulating energy balance. Administration of D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main constituent of the Cannabis sativa plant, increases food intake and decreases energy expenditure...
Individual Differences in Sensory Processing in the Rattus as Assessed Through the Bimodal Preference Profile for the Artificial Sweetener Sucralose: Do Rats Have a ‘Sweet’ Tooth?
Rats display marked variability in their willingness to consume the artificial sweetener sucralose. Most rats are classified as sucralose avoiders (~75%; SA) while the remaining subset can be classified as sucralose preferrers (~25%; SP)...
The sense of taste guides nutrient consumption and affects overall health and quality of life. One of the main functions of taste is the detection of chemical stimuli that elicit the perception of canonical qualities such as sweet, salty...
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