Food for thoughts: feeding time and hormonal secretion
- Feillet, Céline A. Department of Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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2010
Published in:
- Journal of Neuroendocrinology. - 2010, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 620-628
English
Many daily cycles are imposed on us by our environment, such as alternating days and nights, temperature fluctuations or rhythms in food availability. When food is accessible every day at the same time, animals will adapt their physiology and behaviour to match the daily meal. They will anticipate the access to food by waking up and being active in the hours prior to feeding, foraging for food. Adaptation of physiology to changing conditions of food availability is not only evident at the behavioural level, but also for hormonal systems. Thus corticosteroids, melatonin, leptin/ghrelin, insulin/glucagon, orexins and thyroid hormones, that show rhythmic profiles of secretion in ad libitum feeding conditions, are sensitive to increase and/or depletion in energy supplies and will be influenced when food sources are limited or available at unusual times. The purpose of the present review is to report the influence of restricted feeding schedules on secretion profiles of diverse hormones compared to normal ad libitum feeding conditions in rodents. In the end, the interplay between those systems and their response to environmental challenges will allow keeping the animal fit for survival.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 17628
- DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2010.01998.x
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301426
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