Food intake in baboons: effects of a long-acting cholecystokinin analog.
Food intake of four adult male baboons (Papio c. anubis) was monitored during daily experimental sessions lasting 22h. Food was available under a two-component operant schedule. Following completion of the first "procurement component" response requirement, access to food, i.e. a meal, became available under the second "consumption component" during which each response produced a 1-g food pellet. After a 10-min interval in which no response occurred, the consumption component was terminated. A long-acting cholecystokinin (CCK) analog U-67827E (U-67: 0.80-3.2 micrograms/kg) was administered, in the thigh muscle, at 1100 hrs immediately prior to the start of the daily session on Tuesdays and Fridays. U-67 significantly reduced intake during the first 8-h of the session, and intake during the entire 22-h session. The decreased intake was due to a significant decrease in the size of the first meal of the session as a consequence of decreased duration of feeding without a change in response rate. U-67 also produced dose-dependent increases in latency to the first meal of up to 2.5 h. These results demonstrate that a long-acting CCK analog decreases food intake over a prolonged period of time in a naturalistic feeding situation. In addition, the effects of U-67 were limited to the consumption component, suggesting that this CCK analog affected food intake by interacting with physiological mechanisms specifically associated with feeding.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
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D000818:Animals; D002766:Cholecystokinin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D010215:Papio
C060660:U 67827E; D002766:Cholecystokinin