Rat models of diet-induced obesity and metabolic dysregulation: Current trends, shortcomings and considerations for future research

Research on Women's Health: Ready for the Future

(2022) Regine Douthard et al.   JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH

A high carbohydrate and soda diet influences metabolic variables in Wistar rats

(2022) Temitope Gabriel Adedeji et al.   LIFE SCIENCES

Characterization and Comparison of the Divergent Metabolic Consequences of High-Sugar and High-Fat Diets in Male Wistar Rats

(2022) Liske Kotzé-Hörstmann et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Amelioration of Age-Related Multiple Neuronal Impairments and Inflammation in High-Fat Diet-Fed Rats: The Prospective Multitargets of Geraniol

(2022) Eman Fawzy El Azab et al.   Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Why the estrous cycle matters for neuroscience

(2022) Devin Rocks et al.   Biology of Sex Differences

PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews

(2021) Melissa L. Rethlefsen et al.   Systematic Reviews

Advances in Genome Editing and Application to the Generation of Genetically Modified Rat Models

(2021) Vanessa Chenouard et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Sex as a Biological Variable: A 5-Year Progress Report and Call to Action

(2020) Matthew E. Arnegard et al.   JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH

Neonatal zingerone protects against the development of high-fructose diet-induced metabolic syndrome in adult Sprague-Dawley rats

(2020) N. Muhammad et al.   Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

The Stage of the Estrus Cycle Is Critical for Interpretation of Female Mouse Social Interaction Behavior

(2020) Trishala Chari et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Phenotypic sexual dimorphism in response to dietary fat manipulation in C57BL/6J mice

(2020) Isabel Casimiro et al.   JOURNAL OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS

Beneficial Effects of Adiponectin on Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerotic Progression: Mechanisms and Perspectives

(2019) Hidekatsu Yanai et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Benefits of a factorial design focusing on inclusion of female and male animals in one experiment

(2019) Thorsten Buch et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

Male and female mice show equal variability in food intake across 4-day spans that encompass estrous cycles

(2019) Benjamin Smarr et al.   PLoS One

Sex: A change in our guidelines to authors to ensure that this is no longer an ignored experimental variable

(2019) James R. Docherty et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

The role of adiponectin in cholesterol efflux and HDL biogenesis and metabolism

(2019) Anouar Hafiane et al.   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Impacts of sex and the estrous cycle on associations between post-fear conditioning sleep and fear memory recall

(2019) Ihori Kobayashi et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Fructose liquid and solid formulations differently affect gut integrity, microbiota composition and related liver toxicity: a comparative in vivo study

(2018) Raffaella Mastrocola et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Physical exercise mitigates high-fat diet-induced adiposopathy and related endocrine alterations in an animal model of obesity

(2018) Sílvia Rocha-Rodrigues et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Mitochondrial dysfunction in obesity

(2018) Aline Haas de Mello et al.   LIFE SCIENCES

High Fat/High Glucose Diet Induces Metabolic Syndrome in an Experimental Rat Model

(2018) Silvia Moreno-Fernández et al.   Nutrients

Morus alba L. Diminishes visceral adiposity, insulin resistance, behavioral alterations via regulation of gene expression of leptin, resistin and adiponectin in rats fed a high-cholesterol diet

(2018) Fateheya Mohamed Metwally et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Considering sex as a biological variable in preclinical research

(2017) Leah R. Miller et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Sex differences in obesity: X chromosome dosage as a risk factor for increased food intake, adiposity and co-morbidities

(2017) Karen Reue   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Sex-specific enhancement of palatability-driven feeding in adolescent rats

(2017) Andrew T. Marshall et al.   PLoS One

Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits

(2017) Natasha A. Karp et al.   Nature Communications

The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in the Pathophysiology of Obesity

(2017) Daniela Guarino et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Adiponectin-leptin ratio: A promising index to estimate adipose tissue dysfunction. Relation with obesity-associated cardiometabolic risk

(2017) Gema Frühbeck et al.   Adipocyte

Breaking the CycleNovelty and Significance

(2016) Alex Dayton et al.   HYPERTENSION

Female rats are not more variable than male rats: a meta-analysis of neuroscience studies

(2016) Jill B. Becker et al.   Biology of Sex Differences

Are females more variable than males in gene expression? Meta-analysis of microarray datasets

(2015) Yuichiro Itoh et al.   Biology of Sex Differences

Sex differences in metabolic homeostasis, diabetes, and obesity

(2015) Franck Mauvais-Jarvis   Biology of Sex Differences

High-fat diet-induced obesity Rat model: a comparison between Wistar and Sprague-Dawley Rat

(2015) Cláudia Marques et al.   Adipocyte

Female mice liberated for inclusion in neuroscience and biomedical research

(2014) Brian J. Prendergast et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Assessment of Feeding Behavior in Laboratory Mice

(2010) Kate L.J. Ellacott et al.   Cell Metabolism

Differential susceptibility to obesity between male, female and ovariectomized female mice

(2009) Jina Hong et al.   Nutrition Journal

The high-fat-fed lean Zucker rat: a spontaneous isocaloric model of fat-induced insulin resistance associated with muscle GSK-3 overactivity

(2008) Erik J. Henriksen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY