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Animal Models

Disorders of Eating Behaviour and Body Composition

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. John B. Owen

    1. University of Wales, Bangor, UK

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  2. Janet L. Treasure

    1. Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

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  3. David A. Collier

    1. Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Human disorders of eating behaviour and body composition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xi-xi
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    2. Obesity Syndromes

      • Molly S. Bray, David B. Allison
      Pages 1-18

    3. The Spectrum of Eating Disorders in Humans

      • Janet L. Treasure, David A. Collier
      Pages 19-49

    4. Free-Choice Diet Selection — The Economics of Eating

      • Carl V. Phillips
      Pages 51-66

  3. Diet selection and aberrations of body composition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Diet Selection in Wild Animals

      • Lennart Hansson
      Pages 69-82

    3. The Animal within: Lessons from the Feeding Behaviour of Farm Animals

      • Ilias Kyriazakis
      Pages 83-96

    4. Exercise and Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice

      • Roma R. Bell
      Pages 97-116

  4. Genetic models of animal obesity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Obesity (ob) Gene and Leptin in Animal Models of Obesity

      • Karen A. Augustine-Rauch
      Pages 119-131

    3. Genetic Susceptibility of Rodents to Diet-Induced Obesity

      • Joanne Harrold
      Pages 133-155

  5. Genetic susceptibility to leanness in animals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Muscle Enhanced Traits in Cattle and Sheep

      • Noelle E. Cockett, Christopher A. Bidwell
      Pages 159-172

    3. The Halothane Gene, Leanness and Stress Susceptibility in Pigs

      • Paramasivam Kathirvel, Alan L. Archibald
      Pages 173-190

  6. Anorexia models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. The Anorexia Mouse

      • Jeanette E. Johansen, Martin Schalling
      Pages 193-203

    3. Anorexia-Like Wasting Syndromes in Pigs

      • S. C. Kyriakis
      Pages 205-221

    4. Laboratory Animal Models for Investigating the Mechanisms and Function of Parasite-Induced Anorexia

      • Julian G. Mercer, Leslie H. Chappell
      Pages 223-241

  7. Conclusion Implications for understanding and treating human eating disorders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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About this book

The book aims to review knowledge on the disorders of eating behaviour and body composition in some of the non-primate higher animals and to relate these to similar conditions in humans. With advances in understanding the nature of these disorders and their biological basis, it seems timely to assess what cross-species comparisons can tell us about the general underlying factors at work. This may also help to delineate what may be a general biological basis that humans share with their higher animal comrade species and what may distinguish human from non-human, particularly in a cultural context. This could help in combating better the problems of these conditions in the animal species as well as in man and in suggesting well-based preventive measures. As far as people are concerned the last two decades of the 20th century have shown a significant increase in obesity in the richer countries, particularly the USA (Table 1). Possibly associated with the obesity boom, there is an increasing awareness of other disorders of eating behaviour and body composition. These range from anorexia nervosa, at the other end of body composition to obesity, to others, such as bulimia, with more variable effects on body composition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Bangor, UK

    John B. Owen

  • Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

    Janet L. Treasure, David A. Collier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Animal Models

  • Book Subtitle: Disorders of Eating Behaviour and Body Composition

  • Editors: John B. Owen, Janet L. Treasure, David A. Collier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9662-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7095-6Published: 31 October 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5743-3Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9662-6Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 252

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, Neurosciences, Human Genetics, Animal Physiology, Psychiatry

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