Basal Metabolism

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of Human Caloric Restriction: Feasibility and Effects on Predictors of Health Span and Longevity. 
  • A reappraisal of the caloric requirements of men. 
  • Active and explorative individuals are often restless and excluded from studies measuring resting metabolic rate: Do alternative metabolic rate measures offer a solution? 
  • Acute administration of unacylated ghrelin has no effect on Basal or stimulated insulin secretion in healthy humans. 
  • Adverse metabolic response to regular exercise: is it a rare or common occurrence? 
  • Alterations in skeletal muscle fatty acid handling predisposes middle-aged mice to diet-induced insulin resistance. 
  • Both thyroid hormone levels and resting metabolic rate decrease in African striped mice when food availability decreases. 
  • Changes in hunger and fullness in relation to gut peptides before and after 8 weeks of alternate day fasting. 
  • Chlordecone-induced effects on thermoregulatory processes in the rat. 
  • Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution. 
  • Determinants of increased energy expenditure in HIV-infected women. 
  • Energy requirements in nonobese men and women: results from CALERIE. 
  • Estimation of energy requirements in a controlled feeding trial. 
  • Food Availability Is the Main Driver of Seasonal Changes in Resting Metabolic Rate in African Striped Mice (Rhabdomys pumilio). 
  • Habitat, latitude and body mass influence the temperature dependence of metabolic rate. 
  • High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden. 
  • Intracerebroventricular neuropeptide Y increases gastric acid secretion by decreasing tonic adrenergic inhibition of acid in dogs. 
  • Lipomatosis-associated inflammation and excess collagen may contribute to lower relative resting energy expenditure in women with adiposis dolorosa. 
  • METs and accelerometry of walking in older adults: standard versus measured energy cost. 
  • Malaria mosquitoes host-locate and feed upon caterpillars. 
  • Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history. 
  • Mitochondrial biogenesis restores oxidative metabolism during Staphylococcus aureus sepsis. 
  • Molar scaling in strepsirrhine primates. 
  • Physical activity, vascular health, and cognitive impairment. 
  • Physiological and Metabolic Changes During the Transition from Hyperthyroidism to Euthyroidism in Graves' Disease. 
  • Primate energy expenditure and life history. 
  • Reduced rates of metabolism and decreased physical activity in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. 
  • Resting metabolic rate and body composition of achondroplastic dwarfs. 
  • Resting-state multi-spectrum functional connectivity networks for identification of MCI patients. 
  • Scaling of bony canals for encephalic vessels in euarchontans: Implications for the role of the vertebral artery and brain metabolism. 
  • Substituting dietary monounsaturated fat for saturated fat is associated with increased daily physical activity and resting energy expenditure and with changes in mood. 
  • The crown joules: energetics, ecology, and evolution in humans and other primates. 
  • The effects of food intake on muscle oxygen consumption: noninvasive measurement using NIRS. 
  • The impact of short-term depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment on resting metabolic rate. 
  • The value of basal serum follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone and oestradiol concentrations following pituitary down-regulation in predicting ovarian response to stimulation with highly purified follicle stimulating hormone. 
  • Thyroid hormone fluctuations indicate a thermoregulatory function in both a tropical (Alouatta palliata) and seasonally cold-habitat (Macaca fuscata) primate. 
  • Uncertainty in allometric exponent estimation: a case study in scaling metabolic rate with body mass.