This book deals with a novel aspect of a topical problem that is of widespread concern. Obesity and other eating disorders are significant human health problems that are proving highly resistant to prevention and cure. The recognition of important genotype/environment interaction in the causation of these problems and of the extensive genetic homology of higher animals justifies the importance of cross-species comparisons. The book covers observations made on animals in the wild as well as experimental data on laboratory animals and farm animals in order to lay out the basic genetic and environmental factors underlying the control of appetite (including diet selection) and body weight. Breakdown in these intricate mechanisms are then compared to examine the possible common candidate genes and their interaction with non-genetic factors, particularly the availability of diet choice and of levels of body activity. Animals have much to tell us about these mysteries and may significantly aid progress in dealing with what are still highly intractable and serious diseases of the modern world.
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A syndrome can be defined as a group of signs or symptoms that collectively characterize a disease or abnormal condition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wasting pig syndrome, human feeding behaviour, myostatin expression, thin sow syndrome, anx mutation, double muscling phenotype, callipyge lambs, halothane gene, halothane genotype, porcine stress syndrome, dietary obesity, leptin expression, backfat thickness, plasma leptin levels, obesity syndromes, leptin resistance, leptin receptor, serum leptin levels, complex systems model, obese gene, plasma leptin concentrations, leptin action, binge eating disorder, obese state, leptin deficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eat Disord, Brain Res, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Nat Genet, New York, Acad Sci, Anim Sci, Clin Nutr, Anorexia Mouse, Physiol Behav, American Psychiatric Association, Pima Indians, Proc Nutr Soc, Psychol Med, Nat Med, Arch Gen Psychiatry, Belgian Blue, British Landrace, Clin Endocrinol Metab, Clin Invest, Large White, Norwegian Landrace, Obes Relat Metab Disord, Psychiatry Res, World Health Organization New!
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wasting pig syndrome, human feeding behaviour, myostatin expression, thin sow syndrome, anx mutation, double muscling phenotype, callipyge lambs, halothane gene, halothane genotype, porcine stress syndrome, dietary obesity, leptin expression, backfat thickness, plasma leptin levels, obesity syndromes, leptin resistance, leptin receptor, serum leptin levels, complex systems model, obese gene, plasma leptin concentrations, leptin action, binge eating disorder, obese state, leptin deficiency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eat Disord, Brain Res, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Nat Genet, New York, Acad Sci, Anim Sci, Clin Nutr, Anorexia Mouse, Physiol Behav, American Psychiatric Association, Pima Indians, Proc Nutr Soc, Psychol Med, Nat Med, Arch Gen Psychiatry, Belgian Blue, British Landrace, Clin Endocrinol Metab, Clin Invest, Large White, Norwegian Landrace, Obes Relat Metab Disord, Psychiatry Res, World Health Organization New!
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- The Genetics of the Pig by Max F Rothschild on page 220, and page 221
- Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry by Michael Gelder on page 44
- Animal Behaviour (Questions & Answers About) by Anita Ganeri on page 221
- Pig Diseases by David Taylor on page 221
- Brown Adipose Tissue by Morgan on page 154
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