abstract：:Sheep of calm or nervous temperament differ in their physiological (cortisol secretion) and behavioural (motor activity) responses to stressors, perhaps due to variation in genes that regulate glucocorticoid synthesis or brain dopamine activity. Using ewes that had been selected over 20 generations for nervous (n=58) ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Qiu X,Ledger J,Zheng C,Martin GB,Blache D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exercise is considered as one of the most effective means of countering symptoms of the metabolic syndrome (MS) such as obesity and hyperglycemia. Rodent models of forced or voluntary exercise are often used to study the mechanisms of MS and type 2 diabetes. However, there is little known on the impact of gene...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Gordon CJ,Phillips PM,Johnstone AF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal organization of masculine sexual behavior in rats is highly stereotyped; involving a sequence of mounts, intromissions and ejaculations. Sexual behavior has been described in exogamic and genetically manipulated rodent species. In this work, we compare the male sexual behavior of outbred Sprague-Dawley (S...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Eguibar JR,Cortes C,Toriz CG,Romero-Carbente JC,González-Flores O,Fernández-Guasti A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrient stimulation of the enteroendocrine L-cells induces the release of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an incretin and satiating peptide. Due to its short half-life, meal-induced GLP-1's effects on food intake and glycemia are likely to be mediated in part by a paracrine signaling mechanism near the site of r...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Krieger JP,Langhans W,Lee SJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cardiovascular incidence in winter is partly explained by higher blood pressure due to cold exposure. Although higher salt intake induced by cold exposure has been reported in mice, the association remains unclear in humans. To investigate the association between salt intake and cold exposure in winter, a cr...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Saeki K,Obayashi K,Tone N,Kurumatani N

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1975, at the start of my junior year in college, I took a course on experimental methods in psychology from Dr. James C. Smith, when he was a Visiting Professor at Penn State University. That experience set me on the professional path of studying the neural bases of taste function and ingestion on which I remain to...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Spector AC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient oral microelements such as zinc and fully chewing of foods are required to maintain cognitive function despite aging. No knowledge exists about the combination of factors such as zinc deficiency and reduced mastication on learning and memory. Here we show that tooth extraction only in 8-week-old mice did no...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Kida K,Tsuji T,Tanaka S,Kogo M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from the last two decades have pointed to multiple mechanisms of fear. For responding to predators, there is a group of highly interconnected hypothalamic nuclei formed by the anterior hypothalamic nucleus, the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus and the dorsal premammillary nucleus—the predator-responsive hypot...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： de Oliveira Crisanto K,de Andrade WM,de Azevedo Silva KD,Lima RH,de Oliveira Costa MS,de Souza Cavalcante J,de Lima RR,do Nascimento ES Jr,Cavalcante JC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known from previous research that physical exercise prevents long-term memory deficits induced by maternal deprivation in rats. But we could not assume similar effects of physical exercise on short-term memory, as short- and long-term memories are known to result from some different memory consolidation processe...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Neves BH,Menezes J,Souza MA,Mello-Carpes PB

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity that involves both peripheral and central mechanisms. To elucidate central pathways by which oral and visceral signals are influenced by high-fat diet (HFD) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, we recorded from neurons in the caudal visceral nucleus of th...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Boxwell AJ,Chen Z,Mathes CM,Spector AC,Le Roux CW,Travers SP,Travers JB

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine growth restriction and slow neonatal growth in humans are each associated with poorer learning, memory and cognitive flexibility in childhood and adulthood. The relative contributions of pre- and post-natal growth to cognitive outcomes are unclear, however. We therefore compared performance in learning, m...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hunter DS,Hazel SJ,Kind KL,Liu H,Marini D,Giles LC,De Blasio MJ,Owens JA,Pitcher JB,Gatford KL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reward comparison hypothesis suggests that drugs of abuse-induced conditioned saccharin suppression intake is due to the reward value of drugs of abuse that outweighs that of a saccharin solution dissociating from the aversive LiCl-induced conditioned taste aversion (CTA). Huang and Hsiao (2008) provided some conf...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Huang AC,Wang CC,Wang S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is increasingly being recognized as an important clinical syndrome. Although it has been documented that volatile anesthetics induce neuronal apoptosis and cognitive deficits in several aged animal models, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Endoplasmic reticul...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Ge HW,Hu WW,Ma LL,Kong FJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Male sexual satiety has been associated with a decrease in dopamine levels. Spontaneous recovery of copulatory behavior begins at least 72 h after sexual satiety is reached or in the condition in which a sexually-satiated male is exposed to a new receptive female distinct from the one with which sexual satiety was rea...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Rojas-Hernández J,Juárez J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the specific and massive loss of dopamine (DA) containing neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and aggregation of protein α-synuclein. There are a few animal studies, which indirectly implicate the neuroprote...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Shashikumar S,Pradeep H,Chinnu S,Rajini PS,Rajanikant GK

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To seek insights into the relationship between chewing, appetite, food intake and gut hormones, and to consider potentially useful recommendations to promote benefits of chewing for weight management. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Papers were obtained from two electronic databases (Medline and Cochrane), from searc...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Miquel-Kergoat S,Azais-Braesco V,Burton-Freeman B,Hetherington MM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) is released in response to lipid feeding and regulates pancreatic digestive enzymes vital to the absorption of nutrients. Our previous reports demonstrated that cholecystokinin knockout (CCK-KO) mice fed for 10 weeks of HFD had reduced body fat mass, but comparable glucose uptake by white adipose...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： King A,Yang Q,Huesman S,Rider T,Lo CC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard replacement therapy for Addison's disease (AD) does not restore a normal circadian rhythm. In fact, hydrocortisone replacement in AD patients likely induces disrupted sleep. Given that healthy sleep plays an important role in improving quality of life, optimizing cognition, and ensuring affect regulation, the...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Henry M,Wolf PS,Ross IL,Thomas KG

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation of manila clams (Ruditapes philippinarum) by swimming crabs (Portunus trituberculatus) and Japanese stone crabs (Charybdis japonica) was compared in the laboratory under different starvation regimes by a video recording analysis system, and the mechanism of foraging behavior differences between them combined...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Sun Y,Wang F,Dong S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Voiding disorders in humans, particularly in children are associated with increased incidence of behavioral issues as well as past history of childhood abuse. We hypothesized that creating stress in mice, utilizing either a chronic social defeat model (SD) or restraint stress in shallow water model (RSSW) wo...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Mann EA,Alam Z,Hufgard JR,Mogle M,Williams MT,Vorhees CV,Reddy P

更新日期：2015-10-15 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：:Reward-related stimuli come to acquire incentive salience through Pavlovian learning and become capable of controlling reward-oriented behaviors. Here, we examined individual differences in anticipatory activity elicited by reward-related cues as indicative of how animals attribute incentive salience to otherwise neut...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Brenes JC,Schwarting RK

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulty in initiating sleep is an important problem because it is associated with an increased incidence of depression, diabetes, myocardial infarction, and higher all-cause mortality. Although experimental studies in controlled settings have shown that warm skin temperature of the extremities (feet and hands) befo...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Saeki K,Obayashi K,Tone N,Kurumatani N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats exhibit a sensitive period from the time of birth until postnatal day 10 during which they develop preferences for odors even if those odors are paired with a moderately aversive stimulus. It is still unknown whether pre-exposure to an odor produces alterations on intake responses of basic tastants, and on other ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Kamenetzky GV,Suárez AB,Pautassi RM,Mustaca AE,Nizhnikov ME

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used the context preexposure facilitation effect (CPFE) to examine long-term retention of incidental context learning in periweanling, adolescent and adult rats. The CPFE is a variant of contextual fear conditioning in which encoding the context representation, associating this representation with sh...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Robinson-Drummer PA,Stanton ME

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General arousal has been operationally defined as an enhanced motor activity and enhanced intensity of response to sensory stimuli. Even though the effects of gonadal hormones on mating behavior have been much studied, their potential effect on generalized arousal, as defined above, has never been evaluated. In the pr...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Chu X,Gagnidze K,Pfaff D,Ågmo A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent studies have shown that the difference in basal pain sensitivity to mechanical and thermal stimulation between Dark-Agouti (DA) rats and a novel congenic DA.1U rats is major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes dependent. In the present study, we further used DA and DA.1U rats to investigate the role of M...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Guo Y,Yao FR,Cao DY,Li L,Wang HS,Xie W,Zhao Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research literature suggests that oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory factors influence neurotrophins in vitro. However, there is insufficient information about their effects on exercise training conditions, especially during high intensity trainings. This study aimed to compare the effects of 6weeks of high int...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Afzalpour ME,Chadorneshin HT,Foadoddini M,Eivari HA

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Feeding difficulties due to their condition have been widely described for babies, children and adults with Down syndrome (DS). A previous study demonstrated that, compared with wearing a placebo appliance, wearing an occlusal appliance increased inter-arch dental contacts, improved the oral health status of adults wi...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hennequin M,Mazille MN,Cousson PY,Nicolas E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aspects of an animal's early life potentially contribute to long-term individual differences in physiology and behaviour. From several studies on birds and mammals it is known that the early family environment is one of the most prominent factors influencing early development. Most of these studies were conducted...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Guenther A,Trillmich F

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to increased ambient pressure causes inert gas narcosis of which one symptom is long-term memory (LTM) impairment. Narcosis is posited to impair LTM by disrupting information encoding, retrieval (self-guided search), or both. The effect of narcosis on the encoding and retrieval of LTM was investigated by test...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Hobbs M,Kneller W

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that having a meal together with others increases food intake. In contrast, the effects of having a meal on interactions with others have rarely been examined. More specifically, it is unknown if having a social interaction during a meal alters how people feel, behave, and perceive others. In t...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： aan het Rot M,Moskowitz DS,Hsu ZY,Young SN

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize learning/memory profiles for the first time in the genetically heterogeneous NIH-HS rat stock, and to examine whether these are associated with anxiety, we evaluated NIH-HS rats for spatial learning/memory in the Morris water maze (MWM) and in the following anxiety/fear tests: the elevated zero-maze (Z...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Martínez-Membrives E,López-Aumatell R,Blázquez G,Cañete T,Tobeña A,Fernández-Teruel A

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to examine the effect of time-of-day on postural control, body temperature, and attentional capacities in 5-6 year old children. Twelve male children (5-6-year-old) were asked to maintain an upright bipedal stance on a force platform with eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC) at 07:00, 10:00, 14:...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Baccouch R,Zarrouk N,Chtourou H,Rebai H,Sahli S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Describe and predict sex-stratified trajectories of weight change in youths transitioning from childhood to adolescence. METHODS:Using an accelerated longitudinal design, 461 children between 8 and 12 years old at baseline were followed over three years. Body mass index was calculated from self-reported heig...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Brault MC,Aimé A,Bégin C,Valois P,Craig W

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isometric handgrip is commonly used in stress research because the task reliably increases sympathetic arousal. Various handgrip protocols have been used; they vary in handgrip strength, duration of grip, and the number of cycles of handgrip and rest. However, most protocols require the calibration of a maximum volunt...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Nielsen SE,Mather M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we investigated the influence of body weight as defined by BMI on gustatory and olfactory perception. A total of 66 healthy adults (41 females; 25 males) participated in psychophysical measurements using the "Sniffin' Sticks" test and "Taste Strips" test. Odor thresholds as well as discrimination ...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Skrandies W,Zschieschang R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although elemental perception of odor mixtures allows us to perceive the component odor qualities, configural perception leads to the emergence of a new odor percept. The 6-odorant Red Cordial (RC) mixture is weak configurally perceived in newborn rabbits, meaning that pups respond to the odorants after conditioning t...

journal_title：Physiology & behavior

authors： Romagny S,Thomas-Danguin T,Coureaud G

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00