Teleost fishes represent a highly diverse group consisting of more than 20,000 species
living across all aquatic environments. This group has significant economical, societal and …

Mammalian studies have shaped our understanding of the endocrine control of appetite and
body weight in vertebrates and provided the basic vertebrate model that involves central …

1. Introduction 2. A Conceptual Framework for Growth 2.1. The Dynamic Energy Budget
(DEB) Model for Growth 2.2. Myocyte Growth 3. Stress Effect on Energy Available for Growth …

The regulation of food intake in fish is a complex process carried out through several
different mechanisms in the central nervous system (CNS) with hypothalamus being the …

Compensatory growth (CG) is a period of accelerated growth that occurs following the
alleviation of growth-stunting conditions during which an organism can make up for lost …

The homeostatic regulation of food intake relies on a complex network involving peripheral
and central signals that are integrated in the hypothalamus which in turn responds with the …

In mammals, ghrelin is a non-amidated peptide hormone, existing in both acylated and non-
acylated forms, produced mainly from the X/A or ghrelin cells present in the mucosal layer of …

The environment which living organisms inhabit is not constant and many factors, such as
light, temperature, and food availability, display cyclic and predictable variations. To adapt to …

Evidence obtained in recent years in a few species, especially rainbow trout, supports the
presence in fish of nutrient sensing mechanisms. Glucosensing capacity is present in central …

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent orexigenic neuropeptide implicated in feeding regulation
in mammals. However, except for the case of the goldfish, the involvement of NPY in the …