Delayed first active-phase meal, a breakfast-skipping model, led to increased body weight and shifted the circadian oscillation of the hepatic clock and lipid metabolism-related genes in rats fed a high-fat diet.

The circadian clock is closely related to human health, such as metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Our previous study revealed that irregular feeding induced abnormal lipid metabolism with disruption of the hepatic circadian clock. We hypothesized that breakfast skipping induces lipid ab...

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Main Authors: Hatsumi Shimizu, Fumiaki Hanzawa, Daeun Kim, Shumin Sun, Thomas Laurent, Miki Umeki, Saiko Ikeda, Satoshi Mochizuki, Hiroaki Oda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6209334?pdf=render