Influence of ovarian and non-ovarian estrogens on weight gain in response to disruption of sweet taste - calorie relations in female rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-48

  Swithers, Susan E ^a   Sample, Camille H ^a   Katz, David P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Estrogens; Learning; Puberty; Sweeteners

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; ESTROGEN; GLUCOSE; SACCHARIN; YOGHURT;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEETNESS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SACCHARIN; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE; TRIAZOLES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84871931694     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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