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A diet high in fat and sugar reverses anxiety-like behaviour induced by limited nesting in male rats: Impacts on hippocampal markers

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

A genetic epilepsy rat model displays endophenotypes of psychosis

scientific article published on 11 February 2010

A review of fundamental principles for animal models of DOHaD research: an Australian perspective.

scientific article

Acute effect of carbamazepine on corticothalamic 5-9-Hz and thalamocortical spindle (10-16-Hz) oscillations in the rat.

scientific article

Administration of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) Reduces Metabolic Impairment in Male Mouse Offspring from Obese Mothers

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Altered feeding patterns in rats exposed to a palatable cafeteria diet: increased snacking and its implications for development of obesity

scientific article

Alternating or continuous exposure to cafeteria diet leads to similar shifts in gut microbiota compared to chow diet.

scientific article

An efficient new assay for measuring zebrafish anxiety: Tall tanks that better characterize between-individual differences

scientific article published in May 2021

An efficient new assay for measuring zebrafish anxiety: tall tanks that better characterize between-individual differences

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Anxiolytic effects of rapid amygdala kindling, and the influence of early life experience in rats

scientific article published on 3 May 2009

Brain neuropeptide Y and CCK and peripheral adipokine receptors: temporal response in obesity induced by palatable diet

scientific article published on 04 September 2007

Cafeteria diet and probiotic therapy: cross talk among memory, neuroplasticity, serotonin receptors and gut microbiota in the rat.

scientific article

Cafeteria diet impairs expression of sensory-specific satiety and stimulus-outcome learning.

scientific article

Cardiac sympathetic nerve biology and brain monoamine turnover in panic disorder

scientific article published in June 2004

Cardiovascular and metabolic effects of obesity.

scientific article published on April 2008

Catecholamine release in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in response to haemorrhage, desipramine and potassium

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Central alpha-adrenoceptors and blood pressure regulation in the rat.

scientific article published in May 1982

Central and peripheral contributions to obesity-associated hypertension: impact of early overnourishment

scientific article published on 16 August 2005

Central serotonergic mechanisms in cardiovascular regulation.

scientific article published on January 1990

Centtral Interactions Between Noradrenaline and Neuropeptide Y in the Rat: Implications for Blood Pressure Control ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Changes in gut microbiota in rats fed a high fat diet correlate with obesity-associated metabolic parameters

scientific article published on 18 May 2015

Chronic early life stress induced by limited bedding and nesting (LBN) material in rodents: critical considerations of methodology, outcomes and translational potential

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs β-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring

scientific article

Complementary changes in plasma atrial natriuretic peptide and antidiuretic hormone concentrations in response to volume expansion and haemorrhage: studies in conscious normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats

scientific article published on 01 April 1987

Cross-talk among metabolic parameters, esophageal microbiota, and host gene expression following chronic exposure to an obesogenic diet

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Daily Exposure to Sucrose Impairs Subsequent Learning About Food Cues: A Role for Alterations in Ghrelin Signaling and Dopamine D2 Receptors.

scientific article

Daily access to sucrose impairs aspects of spatial memory tasks reliant on pattern separation and neural proliferation in rats.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Diet-Induced Cognitive Deficits: The Role of Fat and Sugar, Potential Mechanisms and Nutritional Interventions

scientific article

Diet-induced obesity impairs endothelium-derived hyperpolarization via altered potassium channel signaling mechanisms

scientific article

Dietary intake in children on the autism spectrum is altered and linked to differences in autistic traits and sensory processing styles

scientific article published in 2022

Dietary obesity increases NO and inhibits BKCa-mediated, endothelium-dependent dilation in rat cremaster muscle artery: association with caveolins and caveolae

scientific article

Dietary-induced obesity disrupts trace fear conditioning and decreases hippocampal reelin expression

scientific article

Differential effects of diet-induced obesity on BKCa {beta}1-subunit expression and function in rat skeletal muscle arterioles and small cerebral arteries.

scientific article published on 2 May 2011

Differential motivational profiles following adolescent sucrose access in male and female rats.

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Direct radioimmunoassay of human plasma atrial natriuretic peptide in various normal and pathophysiological states: increase in renal and cardiac failure during exercise

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Does neuropeptide Y contribute to the anorectic action of amylin?

scientific article published in March 2001

Early Hypothalamic FTO Overexpression in Response to Maternal Obesity – Potential Contribution to Postweaning Hyperphagia ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2011

Early Life Stress Induced by Limited Nesting Material Produces Metabolic Resilience in Response to a High-Fat and High-Sugar Diet in Male Rats.

scientific article

Early dietary intervention: long-term effects on blood pressure, brain neuropeptide Y, and adiposity markers.

scientific article published on 11 January 2005

Early life influences on obesity risk: maternal overnutrition and programming of obesity

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Early life maternal separation stress augmentation of limbic epileptogenesis: the role of corticosterone and HPA axis programming

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Early life stress and post-weaning high fat diet alter tyrosine hydroxylase regulation and AT1 receptor expression in the adrenal gland in a sex dependent manner.

scientific article published on 7 February 2013

Early life stress enhancement of limbic epileptogenesis in adult rats: mechanistic insights

scientific article

Early postnatal stress confers enduring vulnerability to limbic epileptogenesis

scientific article published in November 2007

Early-Life Stress, HPA Axis Adaptation, and Mechanisms Contributing to Later Health Outcomes

scientific article

Editorial: Impact of Diet on Learning, Memory and Cognition

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Effect of I.C.V. injection of AT4 receptor ligands, NLE1-angiotensin IV and LVV-hemorphin 7, on spatial learning in rats.

scientific article published on January 2004

Effect of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement on prepulse inhibition and locomotor activity in mice.

scientific article

Effect of diet-induced obesity on BKCa function in contraction and dilation of rat isolated middle cerebral artery

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Effect of fimbria-fornix lesion on 125I-angiotensin IV (Ang IV) binding in the guinea pig hippocampus.

scientific article

Effect of short-term cigarette smoke exposure on body weight, appetite and brain neuropeptide Y in mice

scientific article

Effects of long-term cycling between palatable cafeteria diet and regular chow on intake, eating patterns, and response to saccharin and sucrose

scientific article published on 08 November 2014

Effects of maternal diet and exercise during pregnancy on glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle and fat of weanling rats

scientific article

Effects of paternal obesity on growth and adiposity of male rat offspring.

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Elevated anxiety and depressive-like behavior in a rat model of genetic generalized epilepsy suggesting common causation

scientific article published on 5 October 2007

Enalapril and atenolol in essential hypertension: attenuation of hypotensive effects in combination

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress on Firing Patterns of Hippocampal and Thalamocortical Neurons in Rats: Implications for Limbic Epilepsy

scientific article

Environmental enrichment delays limbic epileptogenesis and restricts pathologic synaptic plasticity

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

Environmental enrichment imparts disease-modifying and transgenerational effects on genetically-determined epilepsy and anxiety

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Erythrocyte Ca2+ handling in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, effect of vanadate ions

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Estrogen deficiency causes central leptin insensitivity and increased hypothalamic neuropeptide Y

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Evidence for an interaction between neuropeptide Y and the melanocortin-4 receptor on feeding in the rat

scientific article (publication date: May 2002)

Evidence for under-nutrition in adolescent females using routine dieting practices

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Exaggerated feeding response to central galanin-like peptide administration in diet-induced obese rats.

scientific article

Exendin-4 is effective against metabolic disorders induced by intrauterine and postnatal overnutrition in rodents.

scientific article published on 14 December 2013

Extended exposure to a palatable cafeteria diet alters gene expression in brain regions implicated in reward, and withdrawal from this diet alters gene expression in brain regions associated with stress

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Extra-adipocyte leptin release in human obesity and its relation to sympathoadrenal function.

scientific article

Feeding responses to a melanocortin agonist and antagonist in obesity induced by a palatable high-fat diet

scientific article published in March 2005

Fluctuating and constant valproate administration gives equivalent seizure control in rats with genetic and acquired epilepsy

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Gene expression in rat models for inter-generational transmission of islet dysfunction and obesity

scientific article

Gene therapy mediated seizure suppression in Genetic Generalised Epilepsy: Neuropeptide Y overexpression in a rat model

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Glucagon phosphorylates serine 552 ofβ-catenin leading to increased expression of cyclin D1 and c-Myc in the isolated rat liver

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Head to Head Comparison of Short-Term Treatment with the NAD(+) Precursor Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) and 6 Weeks of Exercise in Obese Female Mice.

scientific article published on 19 August 2016

Hyperpalatability and the Generation of Obesity: Roles of Environment, Stress Exposure and Individual Difference

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Hypothalamic neuroendocrine circuitry is programmed by maternal obesity: interaction with postnatal nutritional environment

scientific article

Hypoxic postconditioning improves behavioural deficits at 6 weeks following hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal rats

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Hypoxic postconditioning reduces microglial activation, astrocyte and caspase activity, and inflammatory markers after hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal rat brain.

scientific article

Impact of adolescent sucrose access on cognitive control, recognition memory, and parvalbumin immunoreactivity.

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Improved lactational nutrition and postnatal growth ameliorates impairment of glucose tolerance by uteroplacental insufficiency in male rat offspring.

scientific article

In vitro studies of endogenous noradrenaline and NPY overflow from the rat hypothalamus during maturation and ageing ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1998

In vivo and in vitro effects of isradipine on cytosolic Ca2+ concentration in erythrocytes from spontaneously hypertensive rats

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

Increased caveolae density and caveolin-1 expression accompany impaired NO-mediated vasorelaxation in diet-induced obesity

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Increased endogenous noradrenaline and neuropeptide Y release from the hypothalamus of streptozotocin diabetic rats.

scientific article published in April 2004

Influence of leptin on neurotransmitter overflow from the rat brain in vitro.

scientific article published in February 2002

Integration of reward signalling and appetite regulating peptide systems in the control of food-cue responses.

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Interaction between maternal obesity and post-natal over-nutrition on skeletal muscle metabolism

scientific article published on 03 January 2011

Intergenerational effects of overfeeding on aversive learning in zebrafish ()

scientific article published in October 2022

Intergenerational effects of overfeeding on aversive learning in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

scientific article published on 7 February 2022

Lack of effect of age on the cardiovascular response to neuropeptide Y injection in the rat nucleus tractus solitarius

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Late-onset exercise in female rat offspring ameliorates the detrimental metabolic impact of maternal obesity.

scientific article published on 8 August 2013

Leptin reduces food intake but does not alter weight regain following food deprivation in the rat

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Leptin regulation of expression of neuropeptide Y and its receptor

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Leptin's metabolic and immune functions can be uncoupled at the ligand/receptor interaction level

scientific article

Leucine improves glucose and lipid status in offspring from obese dams, dependent on diet type, but not caloric intake

scientific journal article

Lipids, lipoprotein distribution and depressive symptoms: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

scientific article

Long-term postpartum anxiety and depression-like behavior in mother rats subjected to maternal separation are ameliorated by palatable high fat diet.

scientific article published on 5 November 2009

Long-term valproate treatment increases brain neuropeptide Y expression and decreases seizure expression in a genetic rat model of absence epilepsy

scientific article

Many Peptides that Are Present in the External Zone of the Median Eminence Are Not Secreted into the Hypophysial Portal Blood of Sheep ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1993

Maternal Cigarette Smoke Exposure Contributes to Glucose Intolerance and Decreased Brain Insulin Action in Mice Offspring Independent of Maternal Diet ⬇️

scientific article published on November 4, 2011

Maternal obesity impairs brain glucose metabolism and neural response to hyperglycemia in male rat offspring.

scientific article published on 15 December 2013

Maternal obesity increases inflammation and exacerbates damage following neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury in rats

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Maternal obesity regulates gene expression in the hearts of offspring

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

Mechanisms behind early life nutrition and adult disease outcome

scientific article

Microinjection of kainic acid into the rostral ventrolateral medulla causes hypertension and release of neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactivity from rabbit spinal cord

scientific article published on 01 February 1987

Modulation of neuropeptide Y overflow by leptin in the rat hypothalamus, cerebral cortex and medulla

scientific article published in May 1998

More Flavor for Flavonoid-Based Interventions?

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

Multigenerational obesity-induced perturbations in oocyte-secreted factor signalling can be ameliorated by exercise and nicotinamide mononucleotide

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

NPY and NPY Y1 receptor effects on noradrenaline overflow from the rat brain in vitro

scientific article

Neurochemical evidence of cardiac sympathetic activation and increased central nervous system norepinephrine turnover in severe congestive heart failure.

scientific article

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) delays the oestrogen-induced luteinizing hormone (LH) surge in the ovariectomized ewe: further evidence that NPY has a predominant negative effect on LH secretion in the ewe.

scientific article published in November 2003

Neuropeptide Y affects thalamic reticular nucleus neuronal firing and network synchronization associated with suppression of spike-wave discharges

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Neuropeptide Y in the sympathetic control of blood pressure in hypertensive subjects

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Neuropeptide Y potentiation of potassium-induced noradrenaline release in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the rat in vivo

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Niclosamide blocks glucagon phosphorylation of Ser552 on β-catenin in primary rat hepatocytes via PKA signalling

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Niclosamide reduces glucagon sensitivity via hepatic PKA inhibition in obese mice: Implications for glucose metabolism improvements in type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) supplementation ameliorates the impact of maternal obesity in mice: comparison with exercise.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Noradrenaline, but not neuropeptide Y, is elevated in cerebrospinal fluid from the third cerebral ventricle following audiovisual stress in gonadectomised rams and ewes.

scientific article

Obesity up-regulates intermediate conductance calcium-activated potassium channels and myoendothelial gap junctions to maintain endothelial vasodilator function

scientific article published on 29 July 2010

Obesity-induced sperm DNA methylation changes at satellite repeats are reprogrammed in rat offspring.

scientific article

On the TRAIL of obesity and diabetes.

scientific article

Ontogeny of alpha 1 and alpha 2-adrenoceptors in rat brain

scientific article published on 01 May 1980

Oxcarbazepine, not its active metabolite, potentiates GABAA activation and aggravates absence seizures.

scientific article published on 19 August 2008

Parental programming: how can we improve study design to discern the molecular mechanisms?

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Paternal High Fat Diet in Rats Leads to Renal Accumulation of Lipid and Tubular Changes in Adult Offspring

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

Paternal high-fat diet consumption induces common changes in the transcriptomes of retroperitoneal adipose and pancreatic islet tissues in female rat offspring

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Peripheral adrenoceptors after sino-aortic denervation

scientific article published on 01 May 1983

Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide is increased during atrial pacing in conscious rabbits

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Plasma neuropeptide y levels rise in patients undergoing exercise tests for the investigation of chest pain

scientific article published on 01 May 1986

Postnatal development of rat alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors: A comparison between tissues

scientific article published on 01 January 1983

Postprandial oxidative stress is increased after a phytonutrient-poor food but not after a kilojoule-matched phytonutrient-rich food

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Rats eat a cafeteria-style diet to excess but eat smaller amounts and less frequently when tested with chow.

scientific article

Red blood cell ionized calcium concentration in spontaneous hypertension: modulation in vivo by the calcium antagonist PN 200.110

scientific article published on 01 April 1988

Reduced BAT function as a mechanism for obesity in the hypophagic, neuropeptide Y deficient monosodium glutamate-treated rat.

scientific article published in September 1998

Region-specific neuropeptide Y overflows at rest and during sympathetic activation in humans.

scientific article published in January 1997

Relationship of Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Medications With Cognitive Function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Renin, antidiuretic hormone and the kidney in water restriction and rehydration ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1979

Repeatedly stressed rats have enhanced vulnerability to amygdala kindling epileptogenesis

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Rhythmic neuronal activity in S2 somatosensory and insular cortices contribute to the initiation of absence‐related spike‐and‐wave discharges ⬇️

scientific article published on October 22, 2012

Role of MC4 receptors in the depressor and bradycardic effects of α-MSH in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the rat ⬇️

scientific article published on April 15, 2003

Sex-specific effects of daily exposure to sucrose on spatial memory performance in male and female rats, and implications for estrous cycle stage.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Short exposure to a diet rich in both fat and sugar or sugar alone impairs place, but not object recognition memory in rats

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Specific changes in hypothalamic alpha-adrenoceptors in young spontaneously hypertensive rats

scientific article published on 01 September 1981

Stimulation of Neuropeptide Y Overflow in the Rat Paraventricular Nucleus by Corticotropin‐Releasing Factor ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1998

Sugar Consumption Produces Effects Similar to Early Life Stress Exposure on Hippocampal Markers of Neurogenesis and Stress Response

scientific article

Systemic upregulation of NADPH oxidase in diet-induced obesity in rats.

scientific article

The Beneficial Effects of Early Short‐Term Exercise in the Offspring of Obese Mothers are Accompanied by Alterations in the Hypothalamic Gene Expression of Appetite Regulators and FTO (Fat Mass and Obesity Associated) Gene ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

The Effects of Dietary Fibre on Glucose Tolerance in Healthy Males ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1979

The Feeding Response to Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Is Attenuated by Antagonism of the NPY Y1-Receptor in the Rat ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2002

The Relationship Between Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Telomere Length in Aging Mice

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

The Role of the Microbiome in the Metabolic Health of People with Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses: Cross-Sectional and Pre-Post Lifestyle Intervention Analyses

scientific article published in 2022

The acceleration of amygdala kindling epileptogenesis by chronic low-dose corticosterone involves both mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors

scientific article

The effect of early-life stress and chronic high-sucrose diet on metabolic outcomes in female rats

scientific article published on 12 September 2015

The effect of short-term exposure to energy-matched diets enriched in fat or sugar on memory, gut microbiota and markers of brain inflammation and plasticity

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

The link between stress and feeding behaviour ⬇️

scientific article published on April 24, 2012

The long non-coding RNA NEAT1 is responsive to neuronal activity and is associated with hyperexcitability states

scientific article

The lung inflammation and skeletal muscle wasting induced by subchronic cigarette smoke exposure are not altered by a high-fat diet in mice

scientific article

The mechanisms mediating the antiepileptic effects of the ketogenic diet, and potential opportunities for improvement with metabolism-altering drugs.

scientific article

The oesophageal microbiome: an unexplored link in obesity-associated oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

scientific article

The relationship of changes in leptin, neuropeptide Y and reproductive hormones to antipsychotic induced weight gain.

scientific article published in October 2003

The role of hippocampal estradiol in synaptic plasticity and memory: A systematic review

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

The role of reward circuitry and food addiction in the obesity epidemic: An update.

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Transcriptomic signature of early life stress in male rat prefrontal cortex

scientific article published on 10 March 2021

Transgenerational effects of obesogenic diets in rodents: A meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 30 September 2021

Transgenerational effects of obesogenic diets in rodents: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 3 August 2021

Transitory reduction in angiotensin AT2 receptor expression levels in postinfarct remodelling in rat myocardium

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Treadmill exercise has minimal impact on obesogenic diet-related gut microbiome changes but alters adipose and hypothalamic gene expression in rats

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Unaltered TNF-alpha production by macrophages and monocytes in diet-induced obesity in the rat.

scientific article

Vascular and brain neuropeptide Y in banded and spontaneously hypertensive rats

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

What obesity research tells us about epigenetic mechanisms

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Why is obesity such a problem in the 21st century? The intersection of palatable food, cues and reward pathways, stress, and cognition.

scientific article

alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenoceptors in rat cerebral cortex: effect of frontal lobotomy

scientific article published on 01 February 1981

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