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Stress facilitates body weight gain in genetically predisposed rats on medium-fat diet.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Oct 2003
Michel Chantal, Levin Barry E, Dunn-Meynell Ambrose A
Abstract excerpt
To assess the interaction between stress and energy homeostasis, we immobilized male Sprague-Dawley rats prone to diet-induced obesity (DIO) or diet resistance (DR) once for 20 min and then fed them either low-fat (4.5%) chow or a medium-fat (31%), high-energy (HE) diet for 9 days. Stressed, chow-fed DIO rats gained less, while stressed DIO rats on HE diet gained more body weight and had higher feed efficiency...
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