Showing papers in "Physiology & Behavior in 2017"

TL;DR: A change in the efficiency of energy expenditure based upon diet is suggested, such that SPA during HFD burns fewer calories compared to SPA on a standard chow diet.

TL;DR: This Users Guide is intended to provide a fundamental overview of conceptual, technical and practical knowledge that will assist individuals who engage in and evaluate HPA axis research.

TL;DR: Data indicate that, similar to HF/HSD, consumption of an LF/ HSD induces dysbiosis of gut microbiota, increases gut inflammation and alters vagal gut-brain communication, associated with an increase in body fat accumulation.

TL;DR: The SABV policy requires researchers to factor sex into the design, analysis, and reporting of vertebrate animal and human studies, and includes rigorous preclinical experimental designs that inform clinical research.

TL;DR: It is the intent of this brief review to enlighten researchers studying interspecies translation of biomedical data on the salient facets of the mouse thermal physiology and show how extrapolation in fields such as physiology, psychology, nutrition, pharmacology, toxicology, and pathology can be beneficial.

TL;DR: Bi-directional associations with parental pressuring feeding strategies being developed in response to children’s food avoidant behaviors, but also seemingly having a counterproductive effect on fussiness suggest the use of pressure to eat should be reconsidered, while providing parents alternative techniques to deal with their child's fussy eating.

TL;DR: Data is reviewed that support the role of LAN as an endocrine disruptor in humans to be considered in treatments and lifestyle suggestions, and the potential for ecosystem-wide effects of artificial LAN is discussed.

TL;DR: Evidence that mice fed a HFD exhibit cognitive deficits, anxiety and depressive-like behaviors is provided and increased expression of IL-1β in the hippocampus and amygdala may be associated with the development of cognitive deficits and anxiety-like behavior, respectively.

TL;DR: The interests and limitations of heart rate (HR), HR variability (HRV) and biochemical variables (blood, urinary and hormonal variations) were analysed, with a special focus on daily measures (before, during and after training) and monitoring throughout a whole season.

TL;DR: It was concluded from the study that greater fatigue potential, muscle soreness, stress and ITL was significantly more apparent within a 2-game microcycle, so care should be taken when planning the lead into and out of a 1-game fixture microcycle highlighting key specific recovery strategies to damped the increased stress effect.

TL;DR: It is reported for the first time gender differences on behavioral parameters and cortisol levels in response to UCS in zebrafish, showing that UCS increased aggression in males, but not in females, which displayed more aggressive behavior at baseline than control males.

TL;DR: The results suggest that hyperphagia associated with WD-induced obesity is driven by enhanced endocannabinoid signaling at peripheral CB1Rs, and endogenous activity at peripheralCB1Rs in WD mice is critical for driving hyperphragia.

TL;DR: It is determined that the social environment is a key modulator of these relationships in Mus musculus, and subordinate males living in social hierarchies had significantly higher levels of plasma corticosterone than pair-housed subordinate males, suggesting that living in a large group is a more socially stressful experience for less dominant individuals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of bedroom-intensity light from a standard fluorescent and a blue- (i.e., short-wavelength) depleted LED source on melatonin suppression, alertness, and sleep were compared.

TL;DR: In conclusion, quercetin can efficiently prevent stress induced neurological complications by rescuing brain from oxidative and inflammatory stress.

TL;DR: Silibinin significantly attenuated anxiety/depression-like behaviors caused by Aβ1-42-treatment as shown in tail suspension test (TST), elevated plus maze (EPM) and forced swimming tests (FST).

TL;DR: This non-systematic review provides an overview of olfactory habituation and adaptation in humans, and techniques that have been used to measure them.

TL;DR: A role for affective touch in the regulation of heart rate when being stroked was demonstrated and the high pleasantness of giving and receiving touch may foster affective tactile interactions among romantic partners, thus reinforcing the relationship.

TL;DR: This review systematically outlines the basic neuroanatomy of relevant hippocampal features to help clarify how chronic stress or glucocorticoids impact hippocampal dendritic complexity and how these changes occur in parallel with spatial cognition.

TL;DR: More evidence is required to understand the interaction between physical activity, appetite control and diet composition on passive overconsumption and energy balance, and potential moderators of appetite control along the spectrum of physical activity remain to be fully understood.

TL;DR: Applying higher relative pressures results in the greatest cardiovascular response, higher perceptual ratings, and greater decrease in exercise volume compared to lower restriction pressures, therefore the perceptual responses from lower relative pressures may be more appealing and provide a safer and more tolerable stimulus for individuals.

TL;DR: This brief review focuses on the mechanisms by which corticolimbic nuclei, critical for stress appraisal and emotional reactivity, regulate heart rate and blood pressure responses to psychological stress.

TL;DR: The slightly longer and postnatal sensitive period in females provides a valuable tool for understanding this challenging but fundamental developmental process.

TL;DR: The mechanisms through which leptin facilitates cognition and behavior are discussed, as well as the loci at which leptin resistance leads to impairments in hippocampal synaptic plasticity, including the development of cognitive deficits and increased risk of depressive illness in metabolic disorders such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

TL;DR: Zebrafish swimming behavior was measured following administration of various algogens and the suppression of swimming was attenuated by administration of the common analgesic, morphine, which provides support for the use of zebrafish as a cost-effective and translatable model of nociception.

TL;DR: It is found that metformin could attenuate the deficits of hippocampal related behaviors and inhibit cell apoptosis through ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) rat model, indicating that met formin protect hippocampus from ischemic damage through PI3K/Akt1/JNK3/c-Jun signaling pathway.

TL;DR: The findings add to an emerging body of work that has highlighted sex differences in fetal programming, whereby females become more reactive following prenatal stress, and males less reactive, essential for the development of targeted prevention strategies.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that owner-dog interactions improve the well-being of dogs during a veterinary examination, with significant increases in lip licking, HR, and max OST.

TL;DR: It is found that the administration of LPS led to mitochondrial oxidative stress and dysfunction as evidenced by increased mitochondrial superoxide production and decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and ATP production in the hippocampus, which was attenuated by intracerebroventricular (ICV) Injection of the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant Mito-TEMPO.

TL;DR: Results indicated that, compared to normal lighting conditions, participants' sleepiness and melatonin rhythm significantly declined when they were exposed to blue-enriched white light, and the experimental condition had a significant effect on the reduction of working memory errors.