Smooth muscle sensitization and neuromuscular depression induced by chronic administration of antimalarial drugs.

abstract：:Oxygen-enriched drinking water, which is increasingly sold worldwide, is claimed to "keep both the body and the mind healthy." However, currently there is no scientific evidence for such a statement. Therefore, we assessed the effect of 22 weeks of drinking oxygenated water on cognitive performance in healthy mice, us...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Sommer AM,Bogusch C,Lerchl A

更新日期：2007-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) is a transcription factor that belongs to the nuclear receptor family and plays an important role in regulating gene expression associated with lipid metabolism. PPARα promotes hepatic fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis in response to fasting. Because energy m...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Kondo Y,Chikahisa S,Shiuchi T,Shimizu N,Tanioka D,Uguisu H,Séi H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological stressors are known to increase core body temperature (T(c)) in laboratory animals. Such single stress-induced hyperthermic responses are typically monophasic, as T(c) returns to baseline within several hours. However, studies on the effects of repeated psychological stress on T(c) are limited. Therefore...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hayashida S,Oka T,Mera T,Tsuji S

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of the behavioral reactions of rodents to predators have greatly contributed to the understanding of defense-related human psychopathologies such as anxiety and panic.We here investigated the behavioral consequences of exposing male Wistar rats to a live cat using the elevated T-maze test of anxiety. This tes...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Bulos EM,Pobbe RL,Zangrossi H Jr

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep and goats differ in diet selection, which may reflect different abilities to deal with the ingestion of plant secondary metabolites. Although saliva provides a basis for immediate oral information via sensory cues and also a mechanism for detoxification, our understanding of the role of saliva in the pre-gastric...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Lamy E,da Costa G,Santos R,Capela E Silva F,Potes J,Pereira A,Coelho AV,Sales Baptista E

更新日期：2009-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma corticosterone levels of rats were examined prior to their morning meal on Days 1, 7 and 20 of a regimen of 1 hr access daily to food mash and water. The relationship between external cues and meal provision was varied by feeding some groups immediately upon room entry each morning, and others with a variab...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Coover GD,Murison R,Sundberg H,Jellestad F,Ursin H

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24-hour sleep-wake cycle of untreated, normal rats and of capsaicin-treated rats was continuously recorded by telemetry. Recordings were made on two baseline days at 22 degrees C, two days at 29 degrees C, and two final days at 22 degrees C. In untreated animals the daily amount of waking was reduced by the elevat...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Obál F Jr,Tobler I,Borbély AA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:17-β estradiol (E2) has been shown to modulate fear conditioning by influencing freezing behavior following re-exposure to either the conditioning context or a cue associated with shock. Fear-related behaviors other than freezing may be influenced differently by E2 replacement. Accordingly, the present study examined ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Gervais NJ,Jacob S,Brake WG,Mumby DG

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Electroacupuncture (EA) as well as moxibustion stimulation has been reported to produce an excitatory effect on the gastrointestinal motility of the rat. Serotonergic neurons of the mioenteric and submucous plexus are major participants in the gastrointestinal physiology. Here, we compared the outcomes of the...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Sugai GC,Freire Ade O,Tabosa A,Yamamura Y,Tufik S,Mello LE

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments examined the hypothesis that social isolation of weanling rats potentiates hedonic processes by examining the consumption of sucrose solutions. In the first experiment no differences in consumption were found between socially reared rats and isolation-reared rats allowed to consume sucrose in a famil...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hall FS,Humby T,Wilkinson LS,Robbins TW

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensory properties of foods and beverages are primary determinants of food choice. Some flavor components have an inherent hedonic valence that influences ingestive behavior. However, these hedonic impressions may be modified and others newly formed through their association with the post-ingestive consequences of...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Mattes RD

更新日期：2012-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Obese female Zucker rats have several reproductive abnormalities, including delayed puberty, abnormal estrous cyclicity, and behavioral hyporesponsiveness to ovarian steroid hormones. To ascertain whether excessive body weight per se causes these reproductive abnormalities, obese Zucker female rats were fed ad lib or ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Marín-Bivens CL,Olster DH

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of infantile handling stimulation on exploratory and emotional behavior of Roman high- and low-avoidance (RHA/Verh and RLA/Verh) weanling rats was investigated. Postnatally handled and nonhandled, 4-week-old males and females from both psychogenetically selected lines were exposed to a hexagonal tunnel maze...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Fernández-Teruel A,Escorihuela RM,Driscoll P,Tobeña A,Bättig K

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal stress (heat and restraint) reduced pregnancy-induced and elevated postpartum aggression in Rockland-Swiss (R-S) albino female mice. Though prenatally-stressed females were indistinguishable from control animals with respect to parental behavior during the virgin state, the former displayed slightly lower lev...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Kinsley C,Svare B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies had indicated the possibility of the involvement of the alpha(1) adrenergic receptors on the medial preoptic (mPOA) neurons in hypnogenesis. Microinjection of alpha1 agonist methoxamine (0.05 microg) into the mPOA of the rats, maintained at an ambient temperature (Tamb) of 24 degrees C, did not produce...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Vetrivelan R,Mallick HN,Kumar VM

更新日期：2005-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Studied were isolation induced effects in guinea pigs. Males (CM) living in two colonies (12 males, 12 females, each) were compared to males (IM) born in the colonies and kept isolated from their 2nd month of age. The findings were: At 19 months of age CM showed higher testosterone and cortisol titers, higher adrenal ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Sachser N

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeons were allowed to feed for 1 h either 2 h after lights on (morning pulse) or 3 h before lights off (evening pulse). Body temperature was measured radiotelemetrically. Faecal excretion, as an index of rate of digestion, was measured using load cells. At 22 degrees C, faecal excretion peaked just after lights-on i...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Laurila M,Hohtola E,Saarela S,Rashotte ME

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young adult rats housed in the activity-wheel cages and fed only 1 hr daily, have ulcers in the glandular stomach and reveal immunodeficiency. The present study was attempted to investigate how to separate the ulceration and immunodeficiency in order to utilize the activity-stress (A-S) model as an animal model of the...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hara C,Ogawa N

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that adolescent social isolation of rats can lead to an increased anxiety state during adulthood, while chronic anxiety states are associated with dysregulated local GABAergic inhibition within the basolateral amygdala (BL). Therefore, we investigated the effects of post-weaning social isol...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Lukkes JL,Burke AR,Zelin NS,Hale MW,Lowry CA

更新日期：2012-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a world-wide problem, and a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases. It is well established that sex differences influence fat storage. Males and females exhibit differences in anatomical fat distribution, utilization of fat stores, levels of adipose tissue-derived hormon...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Reue K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular responses to moderate steady-state exercise were studied in Type A and Type B males and females. Eighteen men and 17 women, ages 20 to 40 years, were chosen for Type A (males = 10, females = 10) and Type B (males = 8, females = 7) groups by means of the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS). Subjects exercised ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Bulbulian R,Bitters D

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol suited to the investigations of odor-taste interactions in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner is described and results that confirm the validity of that protocol are presented. Stimuli were dissolved in water and presented to the mouth of the participant through plastic syringes and plas...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Cerf-Ducastel B,Murphy C

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral cavity edge perception acuity relative to the fingertip has previously been evaluated by the utilization of cognitively-loaded, stereognostic methods. However, with the lack of connection of the tongue to the visual association cortex, there is concern the superior acuity of the fingertip may be attributable to t...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Miles BL,Ang SL,Simons CT

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature is known to impact taste perception, but its reported effect on sweet taste perception in humans is inconsistent. Here, we assess whether thermal taste phenotype alters the temperature modulation of the brains' response to sweet samples and sweet taste perception. Participants (n = 24 balanced for thermal ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Eldeghaidy S,Yang Q,Abualait T,Williamson AM,Hort J,Francis ST

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous winning experience increases the probability of winning a subsequent contest. However, it is not clear whether winning probability is affected only by the outcome of the contest (winning or losing) or whether fighting experience itself is also sufficient to induce this effect. We investigated this question in...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Dijkstra PD,Schaafsma SM,Hofmann HA,Groothuis TG

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:One group of male rats was reared continuously in small, stable colonies of three animals each during a ten-week period beginning when they were 46 days old. A second group of animals was also reared in small groups of three animals each but membership within these colonies was randomly changed at weekly intervals. Th...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Lore RK,Stipo-Flaherty A

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a "stretching response" which occurs in some female laboratory rats during the course of mating. It is most obviously characterized by an indentation of the abdominal wall and tonic limb and pelvic movements, which occur in irregularly spaced pulses of variable duration. The response was not seen ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Naggar AN,Toner JP,Adler NT

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-inflammatory cytokines, interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) synthesized by activated macrophages and monocytes in response to administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), are considered important mediators of fever and sickness behavior. We administered rat-specific antisera for...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Harden LM,du Plessis I,Poole S,Laburn HP

更新日期：2006-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature the degu has been observed to deposit and to investigate scents. This study employed a captive group of these animals to investigate their responses to conspecific urinary marks in a neutral arena. Both sex classes served as subjects. They were presented with urine obtained from males, from females and a sal...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Fischer RB,Meunier GF

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonic imaging was used to quantify oral movements made during the oral processing of foods while subjects assessed the intensity of the sensory attributes, thick, creamy, sweet and bitter. A series of four stimuli were prepared with high and low viscosities and high and low sweetness. Over five sessions, subjects...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： de Wijk RA,Wulfert F,Prinz JF

更新日期：2006-08-30 00:00:00