title: Comparative effects of meal timing on circadian rhythms of plasma insulin and skin surface temperature in non-human primates.
abstract: Circadian rhythms of plasma immunoreactive insulin and skin surface temperature were demonstrated in a group of African green vervets. Alteration in the timing of a single daily meal of fixed calorie content resulted in an acrophase shift of plasma immunoreactive insulin for the group of animals and in an acrophase shift of skin surface temperature in 7 or the 8 animals studied. The acrophase shift of skin surface temperature was considerably less then the shift of acrophase of plasma immunoreactive insulin, which closely approximated the shift in meal timing. The results of this study are compared with results of similar studies in human beings.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002521:Cercopithecus / Q000502:physiology*; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops / Q000502:physiology*; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D012881:Skin Temperature; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin