ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2022
Studying food entrainment: Models, methods, and musings.
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- A population of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra is required for food-anticipatory activity.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Spatial transcriptomic profiling uncovers the molecular effects of the neurotoxicant polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the brains of adult mice.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Genetic Identification of Dopamine Neurons Required for Circadian Food Anticipatory Activity in Mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Social context suppresses food anticipatory activity and associated thermoregulation in mice.PloS one · 2026Article
- The circadian molecular clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus is necessary but not sufficient for fear entrainment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Leptin receptor neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus input to the circadian feeding network.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
The ability to tell time relative to predictable feeding opportunities has a long history of research, going back more than 100 years with behavioral observations of honeybees and rats. Animals that have access to food at a particular time of day exhibit "food anticipatory activity" (FAA), which is a preprandial increase in activity and arousal thought to be driven by food entrained circadian oscillator(s). However, the mechanisms behind adaptation of behavior to timed feeding continue to elude our grasp. Methods used to study circadian entrainment by food vary depending on the model system and the laboratory conducting the experiments. Most studies have relied on rodent model systems due to neuroanatomical tools and genetic tractability, but even among studies of laboratory mice, methods vary considerably. A lack of consistency within the field in experimental design, reporting, and definition of food entrainment, or even FAA, makes it difficult to compare results across studies or even within the same mutant mouse strain, hindering interpretation of replication studies. Here we examine the conditions used to study food as a time cue and make recommendations for study design and reporting.
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