title: [Methods for registering food intake in laboratory animals].
abstract: Registering the ingestive activity of laboratory animals can be carried out by using electronic scales connected to personal computers, thus gathering data files that allow calculation of the daily ingestion standards. The ingestion parameters most often used in the standard analysis include the number, size, and duration of the meals, the speed of ingestion, and intervals between feedings, and the hunger and satiation indexes. It is necessary to know a minimum interval between meals to distinguish between true meals and pauses within one and the same meal.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisiología, Universidad de León, España.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barrio Lera
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D003625:Data Collection; D004435:Eating; D051381:Rats; D012042:Registries; D013030:Spain