Serotonin involvement in the electroacupuncture- and moxibustion-induced gastric emptying in rats.

abstract：:For this series of experiments, we wanted to investigate issues related to stress and learning. First, we wanted to determine if unpredictable stress might foster generalized fear responses more than predictable stress. Second, we wanted to evaluate how repeated stress might influence a rat's ability to learn what con...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Trow JE,Jones AM,McDonald RJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darwinian fitness reflects trade-offs between reproduction and survival. Mechanisms have evolved in small nontropical mammals and birds to maximize reproductive output during the summer when thermoregulatory demands are relatively low and food is abundant and to shunt energy to processes that presumably increase the o...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Workman JL,DeWitt SJ,Fonken LK,Nelson RJ

更新日期：2010-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological evidence indicates that physical activity between menarche and first pregnancy is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer among women with at least 20years between these reproductive events. The mechanism by which physical activity during this interval confers protection is unknown. This study us...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Sturgeon KM,Schweitzer A,Leonard JJ,Tobias DK,Liu Y,Cespedes Feliciano E,Malik VS,Joshi A,Rosner B,De Jonghe BC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1), a cytokine secreted by activated macrophages, inhibits sexual behavior in female but not male rats. The present study examined the effects of IL-1 on sexual attractiveness of the injected animal and on the sexual responses exhibited by its mating partner. In Experiment 1, a male rat was placed wi...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Avitsur R,Cohen E,Yirmiya R

更新日期：1997-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Pair-bonded relationships form during periods of close spatial proximity and high sociosexual contact. Like other monogamous species, marmosets form new social pairs after emigration or ejection from their natal group resulting in periods of social isolation. Thus, pair formation often occurs following a period of soc...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Smith AS,Birnie AK,French JA

更新日期：2011-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of naltrexone on the behavior in mice were investigated by using a multi-dimensional behavioral analyser. Within 15 min following observation, naltrexone preferentially suppressed the linear locomotion at the 10 and 30 mg/kg doses. The results suggest that naltrexone selectively disrupts the linear locomot...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Ukai M,Kameyama T

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of dietary self-selection has been widely used to investigate proposed mechanisms of protein and carbohydrate regulation and to substantiate theories relating nutrients, brain chemistry and behaviour. These experiments have produced conflicting results which might be accounted for by differences in exper...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： McArthur RA,Blundell JE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and chronic stress have been considered important public health problems that affect millions of people worldwide. Our aim was to analyze the effect of obesity associated with chronic stress on neurobehavioral parameters in female rats, considering that the association of these syndromes can enhance the negati...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： da Costa Estrela D,da Silva WA,Guimarães AT,de Oliveira Mendes B,da Silva Castro AL,da Silva Torres IL,Malafaia G

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartame (APM; L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester), was investigated for its ability to alter levels of the large neutral amino acids and monoamines in overnight fasted rats allowed to consume meals with or without protein for two hours. Additionally, the possible long term behavioral consequences of APM in 25% ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Torii K,Mimura T,Takasaki Y,Ichimura M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the contribution of the two catecholamines--epinephrine (EPI) and norepinephrine (NE)--to the control of food intake and body weight gain in male rats during chronic exercise. Urinary excretion of both catecholamines rose significantly and was positively correlated to food intake inhibition (N...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Guilland JC,Moreau D,Genet JM,Klepping J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensation that humans describe as "bitter" is evoked by a large group of chemically diverse ligands. Bitter stimuli are avoided by a range of species and elicit reflex rejection, behaviors considered adaptations to the toxicity of many of these compounds. We review novel evidence for neurons that are narrowly tune...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Travers SP,Geran LC

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the functional relationships between the dorsal raphe nucleus and the septum in the inhibitory regulation of feminine sexual behavior in male rats, castrated male rats received destruction of the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRL), interruption of the septal outputs (ARD), or both DRL and ARD (DRL+ARD). All animals...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Kakeyama M,Yamanouchi K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate long-term stability and variability of diurnal cortisol and alpha-amylase patterns. Diurnal cortisol and alpha-amylase secretion patterns were assessed on a single workday with three waves of measurement across a total time period of 24months in 189 participants. Separate hierarchical l...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Skoluda N,La Marca R,Gollwitzer M,Müller A,Limm H,Marten-Mittag B,Gündel H,Angerer P,Nater UM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and test a programmable feeding system based on a contact eatometer, previously developed in our laboratory, consisting of a swinging grid beneath a hopper that is moved by the rat each time it wants to eat. This has not been connected to a solenoid that can block the movement of the grid to prevent access...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Lax P,Zamora S,Madrid JA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the area postrema in radiation-induced emesis and taste aversion learning and the relationship between these behaviors were studied in cats. The potential involvement of neural factors which might be independent of the area postrema was minimized by using low levels of ionizing radiation (100 rads at a dos...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Rabin BM,Hunt WA,Chedester AL,Lee J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy women students were tested on a short battery of tasks assessing cognitive performance. They also completed self-report ratings of mood, the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) to which was appended several additional items concerning their recent dieting behaviour, and a 24-h dietary recall. Heart rat...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Green MW,Rogers PJ,Elliman NA,Gatenby SJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mildly pinching the tail of the rat results in a set of consummatory behaviors including eating, chewing and licking. This phenomenon has been characterized as one which is not causally dependent on induction of pain. In the present study we report that pinching the scruff of the neck, the ears, or the rear paw of rat...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Levine AS,Morley JE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report the role of olfactory bulb (OB) norepinephrine (NE) in the identification and recognition of urinary chemical cues was examined. In Experiment 1, sexually naive adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with either the noradrenergic neurotoxin, DSP-4, or the water vehicle, and tested for their ability...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Guan X,Blank JL,Dluzen DE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food-deprived meadow voles were used to test predictions of two hypotheses associated with the recovery of sexual behaviors following re-feeding. Specifically, we tested between the body weight set point and metabolic fuels hypotheses. To do so, we determined whether the body weight of previously food-deprived female ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Pierce AA,Ferkin MH

更新日期：2005-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory formation is promoted by stress via the release of norepinephrine and stimulation of beta-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs). Previous data demonstrate that repeated stressor exposure increases norepinephrine turnover and β-AR signaling within the amygdala, which led to the hypothesis that some stress-induced behavio...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Camp RM,Johnson JD

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep deprivation may lead to increased impulsivity, however, previous literature has focused on examining effects of total sleep deprivation (TSD) rather than the more common condition, partial sleep deprivation (PSD) or 'short sleep'. Moreover, it has been unclear whether PSD impacts impulse-related cognitive proces...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Demos KE,Hart CN,Sweet LH,Mailloux KA,Trautvetter J,Williams SE,Wing RR,McCaffery JM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor activity of infant rat pups was measured continuously between days 3 and 18 of postnatal age. Mother-reared rats on a 12:12 LD cycle exhibited significant rhythmic activity in the circadian range as early as day 5 of postnatal age. Some of the pups reared in isolation from maternal and sibling contact and kept o...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Anderson VN,Smith GK

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the olfactory sense in the expression of cocaine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) was examined in adult male rats (n = 35) of the N/Nih strain. Consistent with the scientific literature, rats were observed to significantly (p < 0.05) increase (double) the seconds spent in their least-preferred ch...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Calcagnetti DJ,Quatrella LA,Schechter MD

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the utility of the compound nerve action potential (CAP) and spinal nociceptive withdrawal (R3) reflex in identifying and quantifying peripheral afferent activity evoked by sural nerve stimulation in humans. The results of this work demonstrate that currents less than or equal to that which elicit...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Dowman R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mendelson and Gorzalka recently described a bilevel chamber for the evaluation of rodent sexual behavior. In initial studies it was observed that during 5 min adaptation periods prior to the introduction of a sexually receptive female rat, male rats with prior sexual experience in these chambers would move from level ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Mendelson SD,Pfaus JG

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the two-bottle, self-selection method it was found that an excess of thyroid hormone administration to rats increased water and sodium intake. Thyroidectomy changed the initial preference from water to sodium chloride. Oral treatment of the thyroidectomized rats with thyroid hormones brought salt ingestion ba...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Belló AA,Covian MR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin has been reported to be an endogenous antipyretic peptide. The present study assessed whether this peptide has similar effects on stress-induced hyperthermia. Infusion of 3 ng of vasopressin into the lateral ventricle prior to a 40-min restraint stress reduced significantly the hyperthermic response of rat...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Terlouw EM,Kent S,Cremona S,Dantzer R

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental temperature can strongly affect sleep. The habitual sleep phase is usually located between evening decline and morning rise of the circadian rhythm of core body temperature (CBT). However, the thermophysiological mechanisms promoting or disturbing sleep are not yet fully understood. The purpose of this s...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Kräuchi K,Fattori E,Giordano A,Falbo M,Iadarola A,Aglì F,Tribolo A,Mutani R,Cicolin A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female OF1 mice aged 17-18 months were compared with female OF1 mice aged 7-11 weeks for locomotor activity, pain sensitivity, and cognitive performance using the Morris water maze, passive and active avoidance, and the elevated plus-maze learning protocol. Performance of old mice was impaired compared to those of you...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Carrié I,Debray M,Bourre JM,Francès H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) evoked from the ventral tegmental area-substantia nigra (VTA-SN) and lateral hypothalamus-medial forebrain bundle (LH-MFB) was assessed following microinjections of mu (Tyr-D-Ala2-N-Me-Phe4-Gly5ol: DAGO), delta-(D-Ala2, D-Met5)-enkephalin: DADME) or kappa (Dynorphin-B or Rimorphin)...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Singh J,Desiraju T,Nagaraja TN,Raju TR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00