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Background The authors investigated body weight, satiation, and gustative pleasure of obese patients 2 years after a bariatric operation: the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (DS). Methods 9 operated patients, 10 unoperated nonobese and 10 unoperated obese persons participated in the “alliesthesia (food distaste) test– This test is a psychometric assessment of satiation resulting from...
Set-point of body weight was assessed by the behavioral method of the weight threshold to hoard food. Intra-peritoneal injection of nicotine (0.02-0.05 mg/kg) significantly lowered the rats' body weight set-point by 8.5+/-2.7 and 19.2+/-2.6 g (p=<0.05). These results suggest that the administration of low-dose nicotine lowers the body-weight set-point and may be important in predicting the anticipated...
Objective: Smokers usually gain weight when they quit smoking. The present work explores the hypothesis according to which such a rise is a behavioral response to a raised body weight set point taking place when nicotine is eliminated from the body. Research Methods and Procedures: The human body weight set point was assessed with classical behavioral and psychophysical methods, from the delay to...
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