New rat feeding jar: use in study of relationships of food intake and body weight.

1 October 1967

journal article
research article
Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology

Vol. 23 (4) , 589-590
https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1967.23.4.589

Abstract

An inexpensive, easily constructed, spillproof rat feeding jar is described. Using this method, a prediction formula for food intake by rats at various weights was determined. It was found that fasted body weight best correlated with the mean food intake for the preceding 7 days, and that the formula, log food intake = log a + b log fasted body weight most appropriately described the relationship.