The feeding microstructure of male and female mice
Fig 7
Meal size, meal duration and feeding rate changes in responses to fasting and re-feeding in social mice.
A-C. Meal size (kCal) recorded at the indicated times after allowing re-feeding of 16hs fasted male and female mice at 10w (A), 20w (B) and 30w (C) of age [n = 10, *p<0.05 sex; ●p<0.05 vs. baseline, F(28,305) = 1.64, p<0.05]. D-F. Meal duration or mean time spent in each single meal recorded at the indicated times after allowing re-feeding of 16hs fasted mice of both sexes at 10w (D), 20w (E) and 30w (F) weeks of age. G-I. Mean feeding rate calculated as the ratio between meal size (A-C) and meal duration (D-F) [n = 10, *p<0.05 sex, F(28,305) = 1.01, p = 0.46]. The results are expressed as mean values ± SEM relative to baseline (dashed lines) i.e., the mean daily meal size, duration or rate during the fed state.