Obesity

Research on obesity published by scientists at Bar-Ilan University

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 30th, 2009

According to a study from Ramat Gan, Israel, "Schroeder M, Shbiro L, Zagoory-Sharon O, Moran TH, Weller A. Toward an animal model of childhood-onset obesity: follow-up of OLETF rats during pregnancy and lactation. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 296: R224-R232, 2009."

"First published November 26, 2008; doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.90697.2008.-The Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rat model of obesity (a spontaneous CCK1 receptor knockout) has been extensively studied as model of hyperphagia-induced obesity. In previous studies, young OLETF rats presented abnormal eating patterns [compared with Long-Evans Tokushima Otsuka (LETO) controls] in a variety of...

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