Gender differences in tumor-induced anorectic feeding pattern in Fischer-344 rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 29-35

  Varma, Madhu ^a   Chai, Jia Ke ^a   Meguid, Michael M ^a   Yang, Zhong Jin ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated computerized rat eater meter; Cancer; Feeding pattern; Fischer rat; Food intake; Gender differences; Male, female; Meal number; Meal size; Tumor

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MEAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOMA CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EATING; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0034835480     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(01)00569-8     Document Type: Article

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