scholarly journals Effects of severe undernutrition on body weight and fat tissue changes in dry Lacaune ewes

1994 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-300
Author(s):  
F. Bocquier ◽  
Y. Chilliard
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Fat Tissue ◽  
Tissue Changes

A talk between fat tissue, gut, pancreas and brain to control body weight

2015 ◽  
Vol 418 ◽  
pp. 108-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny L. Wilson ◽  
Pablo J. Enriori
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Fat Tissue ◽  
Control Body

THE ANTIOBESITY ACTIVITY OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF ROSE APPLE (Syzygium jambos (L.) Alston) ON FEMALE WISTAR RATS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Atun Qowiyyah ◽  
Setiadi Ihsan ◽  
Hesti Renggana ◽  
Maila Nisa Khoeriyah
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Body Weight Gain ◽  
Ethanol Extract ◽  
Positive Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Fat Tissue ◽  
Syzygium Jambos ◽  
High Carbohydrate ◽  
Apple Leaves ◽  
Female Wistar Rats

<p>Obesity prevalence has increased in recent years and has caused serious health problems. This research was carried out to obtain alternative antiobesity therapy with more minimal side effects. Antiobesity activity of rose apple (Syzygium jambos (L.) Alston) leaves on female Wistar rats induced by high carbohydrate food for 45 days and subcutaneously injection of MSG 2 g/kgbw. Extraction was carried out using maceration method 96% ethanol. The test parameters observed were body weight, food intake, stool consistency and weight, liver and abdominal fat tissue weight. The results showed that high carbohydrate food and monosodium glutamate could induce obesity. Ethanol extract of rose apple leaves at doses of 25, 50 and 100 mg/kgbw body weight had antiobesity activity by inhibiting body weight gain significantly compased to positive control group (p&lt;0.05). The highest antiobesity effect was shown by the ethanol extract of rose apple leaves at a doses of 50 mg/kgbw with % inhibition of body weight gain of 169.3% to positive control group. Ethanol extract of rose apple leaves may reduce appetite, but didn’t have laxative effect and couldn’t reduce fat deposits in the liver and abdominal fat tissue.</p>

A note on fertilization and embryo production in superovulated cattle with various levels of subcutaneous fat tissue

1990 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bielanski ◽  
B. R. Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Total Dose ◽  
Abdominal Wall ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Subcutaneous Fat ◽  
Corpora Lutea ◽  
Holstein Cattle ◽  
Fat Tissue ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Subcutaneous Fat Tissue

One hundred and five Holstein cattle, with a mean body weight of 668 kg, were superovulated using a total dose of 18 mg FSH. Five animals did not have corpora lutea (CL). No ova or embryos were recovered from 12 of the 100 animals which had CL. A total of 810 ova/embryos were collected from the remaining 88 animals and 432 of these were of transferable quality. The mean (range) measurements for subcutaneous fat deposition in samples taken at slaughter from the back, rump and ventral abdominal wall were 14 mm (3 to 34), 7 mm (0·7 to 33) and 7 mm (0·8 to 32), respectively. The number of transferable embryos and fertilized ova decreased as fat levels increased, but the differences between the groups were not significant (P > 0·05). There was a positive relationship between the number of CL and (a) the number of fertilized ova, and (b) the number of transferable embryos (r = 0·53, P < 0·001 and r = 0·48, P < 0·001). The correlation between the number of fertilized embryos and the number of transferable embryos was r = 0·91, P < 0·001.

Behavioural and physiological effects of prolactin in incubating ring doves

1985 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Janik ◽  
J. D. Buntin
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Body Weight Gain ◽  
Breeding Cycle ◽  
Target Tissue ◽  
Weight Changes ◽  
Incubation Behaviour ◽  
Tissue Changes ◽  
High Doses ◽  
Ring Doves

ABSTRACT The role of prolactin in the maintenance of incubation behaviour in ring doves was re-examined and the dose–response relationships for behavioural, target tissue and body weight changes induced by injections of prolactin were compared in doves tested during the incubation phase of the breeding cycle. Doves given injections of prolactin twice a day starting on day 4 of incubation, during a 10-day period of isolation from their mates and nests, showed a higher persistence of incubation behaviour than doves injected with saline vehicle. However, the prolactin treatment failed to maintain incubation behaviour to the same extent as that observed in non-isolated untreated breeding pairs. Liver and body weights were higher and testicular weights lower in birds treated with high doses of prolactin than in non-isolated birds which had been incubating for 14 days. Good dose-response relationships were established between body, liver, crop and testes weights and the dose of prolactin administered. However, only a weak dose–response relationship was observed between prolactin and the maintenance of incubation behaviour. Overall, females injected with prolactin displayed more quiet sitting behaviour, less body weight gain and more gonadal regression than males injected with prolactin. Males in untreated breeding pairs had higher liver weights and lower crop weights than females. It is concluded that prolactin plays a role in maintaining readiness to incubate in doves, but that other factors may also contribute to this response. Further, it appears that prolactin mediates several target tissue changes which are sex-specific during incubation. J. Endocr. (1985) 105, 201–209

Liver fatty acid binding protein gene ablation potentiates hepatic cholesterol accumulation in cholesterol-fed female mice

2006 ◽  
Vol 290 (1) ◽  
pp. G36-G48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory G. Martin ◽  
Barbara P. Atshaves ◽  
Avery L. McIntosh ◽  
John T. Mackie ◽  
Ann B. Kier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Body Weight Gain ◽  
Dietary Cholesterol ◽  
Hepatic Cholesterol ◽  
Fat Tissue ◽  
Tissue Mass ◽  
Female Mice ◽  
Gene Ablation ◽  
Fabp Gene

Although liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP) is postulated to influence cholesterol homeostasis, the physiological significance of this hypothesis remains to be resolved. This issue was addressed by examining the response of young (7 wk) female mice to L-FABP gene ablation and a cholesterol-rich diet. In control-fed mice, L-FABP gene ablation alone induced hepatic cholesterol accumulation (2.6-fold), increased bile acid levels, and increased body weight gain (primarily as fat tissue mass). In cholesterol-fed mice, L-FABP gene ablation further enhanced the hepatic accumulation of cholesterol (especially cholesterol ester, 12-fold) and potentiated the effects of dietary cholesterol on increased body weight gain, again mainly as fat tissue mass. However, in contrast to the effects of L-FABP gene ablation in control-fed mice, biliary levels of bile acids (as well as cholesterol and phospholipids) were reduced. These phenotypic alterations were not associated with differences in food intake. In conclusion, it was shown for the first time that L-FABP altered cholesterol metabolism and the response of female mice to dietary cholesterol. While the biliary and lipid phenotype of female wild-type L-FABP+/+ mice was sensitive to dietary cholesterol, L-FABP gene ablation dramatically enhanced many of the effects of dietary cholesterol to greatly induce hepatic cholesterol (primarily cholesterol ester) and triacylglycerol accumulation as well as to potentiate body weight gain (primarily as fat tissue mass). Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that L-FABP is involved in the physiological regulation of cholesterol metabolism, body weight gain, and obesity.

The reaction of calves to helminth infection under natural grazing conditions. II. Pathology of terminal disease

1968 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Elek ◽  
KC Bremner ◽  
PH Durie
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Serum Protein ◽  
Helminth Infection ◽  
Natural Infection ◽  
Degenerative Changes ◽  
Fat Tissue ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Wasting Syndrome ◽  
Haemonchus Placei

Calves raised worm-free were exposed to natural infection on unimproved pasture infected with Trichostrongylus axei, Haemonchus placei, Ostertagia ostertagia, Cooperia punctata and C. pectinata, and Oesophagostomum radiatum. Some calves received, in addition, experimental infections of O. radiatum and H. placei. All calves showed depressed body weight gains. Haematocrit, haemoglobin, and serum protein levels were reduced, returned to normal after 15–18 weeks' grazing in calves that survived, but continued to fall and reached lower levels in those that died. Calves killed in extremis showed emaciation, oedema, degenerated fat tissue, inflammatory and degenerative changes in the gastrointestinal tract, and atrophy of the lymphatic tissues and thymus. These symptoms are reminiscent of a "wasting syndrome".

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