Animal Models

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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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.

• Syndrom
• behavior
• cognition
• eating disorder
• genes
• muscle
• obesity
• prevention
• stress
• syndromes

• University of Wales, Bangor, UK

  John B. Owen

• Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

  Janet L. Treasure, David A. Collier

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