Effects of Food Restriction and Starvation-Refeeding on Volatile Fatty Acid Concentrations in the Rat

• Published in: The Journal of nutrition Vol. 116; no. 9; pp. 1694 - 1700
• Main Authors: Illman, Richard J., Topping, David L., Trimble, Rodney P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bethesda, MD Elsevier Inc 01.09.1986; American Society for Nutritional Sciences
• Subjects: ACIDE GRAS; ACIDOS GRASOS; ALIMENTACION; ALIMENTATION; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; BLOOD COMPOSITION; Body Weight; cecum; Cecum - metabolism; COMPOSICION DE LA SANGRE; COMPOSITION DU SANG; Diet; EXISTENCIAS DE ALIMENTOS; FATTY ACIDS; Fatty Acids, Volatile - metabolism; FEEDING; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Food; Food Deprivation - physiology; FOOD STOCKS; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; INANICION; INANITION; INTESTIN; INTESTINES; INTESTINOS; Male; plasma; RAT; RATA; RATS; refeeding; STARVATION; Starvation - metabolism; STOCK ALIMENTAIRE; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; volatile fatty acids; volatile fatty acids; starvation; refeeding; cecum; rat; plasma; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Fasting; Rat; Refeeding; Diet; Digestive system; Large intestin; Cecum; Rodentia; Volatile fatty acid; Concentration

Adult male rats were fed either ad libitum or at levels of 19 or 15 g of nonpurified diet per rat daily or subjected to 48 h of starvation followed by 24 h of refeeding. Concentrations of total and individual volatile fatty acids (VFA) in cecal contents were higher in rats fed ad libitum than in tho...