Sugar Fat Ingestion

Sugar fat ingestion refers to the consumption of foods or experimental diets containing both sugars and fats, a behavior relevant to energy regulation, reward, and metabolic health. In neuroscience, researchers examine how taste signals, gastrointestinal feedback, and circulating nutrients influence brain regions that control motivation, learning, appetite, and feeding behavior, including reward-related dopamine pathways. Studying these responses helps clarify why highly palatable foods can alter food-seeking and intake, and supports research on obesity, overeating, metabolic disease, and diet-related changes in brain function. Experimental sugar-fat feeding models also provide a framework for testing how dietary composition shapes neural and behavioral outcomes.

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JoVE Journal - Neuroscience

Simultaneous Detection of c-Fos Activation from Mesolimbic and Mesocortical Dopamine Reward Sites Following Naive Sugar and Fat Ingestion in Rats

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2016

The goal of this study is to identify reward-related distributed brain networks by delineating a reliable immunohistological technique using cellular c-fos activation to measure simultaneous changes in dopamine pathways and terminal sites after novel ingestion of fat and sugar in rats.

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JoVE Journal - Neuroscience
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Progressive-ratio Responding for Palatable High-fat and High-sugar Food in Mice

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2012

The present report details the protocol employed to measure the rewarding effects of high-fat food in mice using a progressive ratio operant conditioning task.

Using an Ingestible Telemetric Temperature Pill to Assess Gastrointestinal Temperature During Exercise

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2015

This study describes an accurate, reliable and non-invasive technique to continuously measure gastrointestinal temperature during exercise. The ingestible telemetric temperature pill is suitable to measure gastrointestinal temperature in laboratory settings as well as in field based settings.

Fat Preference: A Novel Model of Eating Behavior in Rats

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2014

Dietary fat content influences both energy intake and body fat composition in mammals. By examining rats’ preference for high fat food in a series of choice experiments, it is possible to test genetic differences and pharmacological interventions on their preference for high fat food.

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JoVE Core - Biology

Phloem and Sugar Transport

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2026

Like many living organisms, plants have tissues that specialize in specific plant functions. For example, shoots are well adapted to rapid growth, while roots are structured to acquire resources efficiently. However, sugar production is primarily restricted to the photosynthetic tissues that reside in the leaves of angiosperm plants. Sugar and other resources are transported from photosynthetic cells to other specialized tissues by a process called translocation.Within a plant, tissues that...

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