A peptide pheromone of the red-bellied male newt, sodefrin was tested for its ability to increase intracellular concentrations of Ca2+ ([Ca2+](i)) in the dissociated vomeronasal (VN) cells of females by means of calcium imaging system. The pheromo...
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 75(4) 523-526 2013年4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...