Body weight and food intake at early estrus of rats on a high-fat diet.

AUTOR(ES)

Frisch, R E

RESUMO

Body weight, food intake, and age at vaginal opening and estrus were studied for two groups of weanling rats (age 21 days), fed on high-fat (24.6% by weight) and low-fat (5.0%) diets. Fat was substituted isocalorically for carbohydrate in the high-fat diet. The high-fat rats had estrus at 33.3 +/- 0.8 days, significantly earlier (P less than 0.001) than the age at estrus, 37.4 +/- 0.7 days, of the low-fat rats. Estrus was simultaneous with vaginal opening in 81% of the high-fat rats, in comparison to 48% of the low-fat rats. The caloric intake per 100 g of body weight of the high-fat and low-fat rats did not differ at vaginal opening or at estrus, whereas the two groups differed significantly at both events in age, body weight, absolute food intake (g/day), and relative food intake (g/100 g of body weight per day) and absolute caloric intake (calories/day). Caloric intake/100 g of body weight as a function of chronological age first increased and then decreased steadily before estrus for both high-fat and low-fat rats. The findings support Kennedy's hypothesis that a food intake signal, now further defined as caloric intake/100 g of body weight, is a signal for puberty, and are in accord with the hypothesis that a critical body composition of fatness is essential for estrus in the rat, as in the human female.

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