Acute Effect on Milk Consumption in Mice

Milk intake is measured in acute experiments in normal or obese mice after an overnight fast. Milk intake serves as a surrogate for food consumption. 

Average milk consumption is recorded per control and treatment groups and can be expressed as means per time point or cumulative over the whole study period of 6 hours. 

Yamada et al. (1993) studied the interaction of the leptin-induced suppression of milk consumption with the serotonergic pathway. 

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Yamada J, Sugimoto Y, Hirose H, Kajiwara Y (2003) Role of serotonergic mechanisms in leptin-induced suppression of milk intake in mice. Neurosci Lett. 348 195-197 

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