Differential effect of lipopolysaccharide on food hoarding behavior and food consumption in rats

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
A AubertR Dantzer

Abstract

Experimental studies assessing the suppressing effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on feeding behavior have focused exclusively on the ingestive component of this behaviour without taking into account its appetitive component. The appetitive sequence of feeding behavior regroups activities animals engage in to gain access to food without necessarily eating it. The objective of the present study was to compare the effects of LPS on food intake and food hoarding. Rats were given the possibility to access food during a 30-min daily session in an apparatus consisting of a cage connected to an alley with free food at its end. Subjects were tested under different motivational levels for food hoarding: a first group (FS) received a food supplement to maintain stable body weight while a second group (noFS) did not receive such a supplement. LPS (250 micrograms/kg i.p.) dramatically decreased total food intake in rats from both groups whereas food hoarding was much less affected in LPS-treated rats from the noFS group. This expression of a still salient secondary motivation in LPS-treated rats which did not receive any food supplement can be interpreted to suggest the expression of an anticipatory feeding behavior along with a reduced im...Continue Reading

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