Volume 90: Issue 4

Contents

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The cannabinoid system: a role in both the homeostatic and hedonic control of eating?

Joanne A. Harrold, Gareth Williams

735

Gastric leptin: a putative role in the short-term regulation of food intake

Catalina Picó, Paula Oliver, Juana Sánchez, Andreu Palou

743

The effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids, including conjugated linoleic acid, on calcium absorption and bone metabolism and composition in young growing rats

Owen Kelly, Siobhan Cusack, Christopher Jewell, Kevin D. Cashman

751

Effect of ammonia on Na+ transport across isolated rumen epithelium of sheep is diet dependent

Khalid Abdoun, Katarina Wolf, Gisela Arndt, Holger Martens

759

Lycopene in serum, skin and adipose tissues after tomato-oleoresin supplementation in patients undergoing haemorrhoidectomy or peri-anal fistulotomy

Yossi Walfisch, S. Walfisch, R. Agbaria, J. Levy, Y. Sharoni

767

Comparison of the cytotoxic effects of β-sitosterol oxides and a cholesterol oxide, 7β-hydroxycholesterol, in cultured mammalian cells

Lindsay Maguire, Mikhail Konoplyannikov, Alan Ford, Anita R. Maguire, Nora M. O'Brien

777

Fish-oil supplementation reduces stimulation of plasma glucose fluxes during exercise in untrained males

Jacques Delarue, Francois Labarthe, Richard Cohen

787

Absorption of dietary alkylresorcinols in ileal-cannulated pigs and rats

Alastair B. Ross, Martin J. Shepherd, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, L. Vibe Glitsø, Elizabeth Bowey, John Phillips, Ian Rowland, Zhao-Xia Guo, D. J. R. Massy, Per Åman, Afaf Kamal-Eldin

795

Plasma response to a single dose of dietary β-cryptoxanthin esters from papaya (Carica papaya L.) or non-esterified β-cryptoxanthin in adult human subjects: a comparative study

Dietmar E. Breithaupt, Philipp Weller, Maike Wolters, Andreas Hahn

803

Effect of tartaric acid and dietary fibre from sun-dried raisins on colonic function and on bile acid and volatile fatty acid excretion in healthy adults

Gene A. Spiller, Jon A. Story, Emily J. Furumoto, Jo Carol Chezem, Monica Spiller

809

Breakdown of immunity to Nippostrongylus brasiliensis in lactating rats

Jos G. M. Houdijk, Neil S. Jessop, David P. Knox, Ilias Kyriazakis

815

The maternal endocrine environment in the low-protein model of intra-uterine growth restriction

D. S. Fernandez-Twinn, S. E. Ozanne, S. Ekizoglou, C. Doherty, L. James, B. Gusterson, C. N. Hales

823

Cooking attenuates the ability of high-amylose meals to reduce plasma insulin concentrations in rats

Marc A. Brown, Leonard H. Storlien, Ian L. Brown, Janine A. Higgins