Patricia Pelufo Silveira, Carla da Silva Benetti, Caroline Ayres, Flavia Quellen Pederiva, Andre Krumel Portella, Aldo Bolten Lucion, Carla Dalmaz
We have previously demonstrated that neonatal handling increases sweet food ingestion. In the present study, we examined whether food intake, using different kinds of food, is altered in neonatally handled animals, with or without inducing satiety using a sucrose solution. Abdominal fat, glycemia and hormones linked to appetite including leptin, ghrelin and insulin were also measured. We tested palatable food consumption in the homecage to verify whether environmental cues could influence ingestion. Nests of Wistar rats were either (1) non-handled or (2) handled (10 min/day)...
October 16, 2006: Behavioural Brain Research