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, Roff & Fairbairn 2007 , French et al. 2009 ). Monitoring an individual’s energy balance (defined as energy intake minus energy expenditure) is, therefore, essential to understanding how individuals allocate their energy between competing demands in
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the hypometabolic state of the ob / ob and db / db mice. The observation of persistent hypometabolism following weight loss while in a state of energy balance was consistent with the so-called ‘lipostatic’ theory of body weight maintenance, which
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important and widely studied players in the control of energy balance is the hormone leptin ( Friedman & Halaas 1998 , Elmquist et al . 2005 ). Leptin was discovered by Zhang et al . (1994) . Defects in leptin production underlie the massive obesity
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energy balance. It was found that AGRP expression is associated with changes in the leptin level, one of the main hormones which regulates food intake via the hypothalamus. It was further observed that AGRP is produced in neurons that exhibit leptin
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level, estrogen receptor alpha and beta (ERα and ERβ) are expressed in several hypothalamic nuclei with key roles in the regulation of energy balance, such as the arcuate (ARC), paraventricular (PVH) and ventromedial (VMH) ( Simerly et al. 1990
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. 2017 ) providing the strongest evidence for ARC kisspeptin neurons as the hypothalamic GnRH pulse generator. Figure 1 The potential function of kisspeptin neurons in mediating the relationship between energy balance and reproduction. Kisspeptin
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-Twinn & Ozanne 2006 ). This concept states that an adverse perinatal environment programmes or imprints the development of several tissues. It may then permanently determine physiological responses and ultimately produce energy balance dysfunction and diseases
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Introduction The melanocortin neuropeptide system is essential for the regulation of body weight (BW) and energy balance as evidenced by genetic disruptions of the melanocortin pathways leading to obesity in both humans and rodents ( Fan et
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et al. 2000 , Matsumoto et al. 2000 , Samson et al. 2003 ). A number of observations by our group and others strongly implicate PrRP in the homeostatic regulation of feeding and energy balance. In the rat brain, PrRP mRNA is down