id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-271298-7vk3wgw1 Sato, Tomoi Feeding behavior during sialodacryoadenitis viral infection in rats 2001-04-30 .txt text/plain 3278 169 49 This pattern of decreased food intake is similar to that occurring during indomethacin-induced ulcerative ileitis, where we previously measured an increase in plasma tumor-necrosis factor (TNF)-α. The differences in the decrease in the feeding pattern between the SDA viral and a bacterial infection suggest that factors other than TNF-α alone play a significant role in the mechanism of anorexia during a viral infection. An Automated Computerized Rat Eater Meter (ACREM; [7] ), which measures individual meal size and meal number as well as food intake for prolonged periods, provides us with the ability to characterize the biological manifestations associated with feeding behavior including anorexia. Since these cytokines act on the hypothalamus to modulate food intake and feeding behavior, they might have a direct or an indirect influence on the LHA to decrease meal size and on the VMN to inhibit a compensatory increase in meal number during the SDA virus infection. ./cache/cord-271298-7vk3wgw1.txt ./txt/cord-271298-7vk3wgw1.txt