The Journal of veterinary medical science 75(4) 523-6 2013年5月 [査読有り]
Puberty onset in mammals is tightly coupled to the animal's nutritional and metabolic state. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of a high-fat diet on leptin and adiponectin levels, leptin mRNA expression and puberty onset in female rat...
Wirasak Fungfuang   Tomoaki Nakada   Nobuhiro Nakao   Misao Terada   Makoto Yokosuka   Sveinbjorn Gizurarson   Jann Hau   Changjong Moon   Toru R Saito   
Laboratory animal research 29(1) 1-6 2013年3月 [査読有り]
The aim of this study was to investigate food intake, serum leptin levels, and leptin mRNA expression during the sexual cycle in rats. Female Wistar-Imamichi rats aged 8-10 weeks were used in this experiment. Food intake was measured during the li...
Neurons in the medial nucleus of the amygdala (MeA) play a key role in the innate maternal, reproductive, defensive, and social behaviors. However, it is unclear how activation of the vomeronasal system leads to the behavioral outputs that are ass...
In mammals, the vomeronasal system (VS) originating from the vomeronasal organ (VNO; also called "Jacobson's organ") is considered to be a chemosensory system that recognizes "pheromone" signals. In the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB), the primary ...