Caloric restriction (CR) and metabolic glucoprivation affect spontaneous physical activity
(SPA), but it's unknown whether these treatments similarly affect SPA in selectively bred …

Obesity-prone (OP) rodents are used as models of human obesity predisposition. The goal
of the present study was to identify preexisting defects in energy expenditure components in …

Half of Sprague-Dawley rats develop and defend diet-induced obesity (DIO) or diet
resistance (DR) when fed a high-energy (HE) diet. Here, adult male rats were made DIO or …

More than 80% of most daily spontaneous activities (assessed in an Omnitech activity
monitor) occurred during the last hour of light and 12 h of the dark phase in 8 chow-fed male …

Mature male Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Long-Evans (LE) rats were instrumented with
telemetry transmitters for measurement of heart rate (HR) and housed in room calorimeters …

The effect of repeated food restriction-refeeding (weight cycling) on macronutrient selection
and adiposity was investigated in female Sprague-Dawley rats. Rats were maintained on ad …

This study examined the effects of high and low intensity exercise on the resting metabolic
rate during severe dietary restriction. We hypothesized that exercise would attenuate and/or …

The combined influence of exercise training and dietary restriction on daily energy
expenditure was evaluated by exposing 48 male Sprague-Dawley rats to one of three food …

Weight cycling, defined as repeated episodes of weight loss followed by weight regain, has
been suggested to make rats more energy efficient and produce a state of energy balance …

We hypothesized that a polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) background associated with
obese-prone genotype, coupled with preconditioning by caloric restriction, would confer a …