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. 2019 Feb 28;10:83. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00083

Table 2.

Effects of fasting periods of different duration on the circulating levels and the mRNA expression of the main appetite-regulating hormones in several fish species.

Short-term fasting
(1–6 days)
Mid-term fasting
(7–29 days)
Long-term fasting
(≥30 days)
Circulating levels Brain expres. Periph. expres. Circulating levels Brain expres. Periph. expres. Circulating levels Brain expres. Periph. expres.
NPY Atlantic salmon = (108)
Blunt snout bream ↑ (109)
Goldfish ↑ (110)
Blunt snout bream = (109) Blunt snout bream ↑ (109)
Brazilian flounder ↑ (85)
Coho salmon ↑ (111)
Cunner ↓ (112)
Nile tilapia ↑ (113)
Platyfish = (114)
Schizothorax prenanti ↑ (115)
Tiger puffer ↑ (116)
Winter flounder ↑ (117)
Winter skate ↑ (118)
Yellowtail ↑ (119)
Zebrafish↑ (120)
Blunt snout bream = (109) Rainbow trout = (121)
AgRP Atlantic salmon ↓ (108)
Goldfish ↑ (34)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (122)
Sea bass ↓ (123)
Common carp ↓ (124)
Goldfish ↑ (34)
Schizothorax prenanti = (122)
Sea bass ↑ (123)
Zebrafish ↑ (125)
Rainbow trout = (121)
POMC Flatfish ↑ (126) Goldfish = (127)
Rainbow trout = ↑ (128)
Zebrafish = (125)
Zebrafish ↓ (129)
Rainbow trout ↑ (121)
CART Atlantic salmon ↓ (108)
Catfish ↓ (130)
Dourado = (87)
Goldfish ↓ (39)
Siberian sturgeon ↑ (92)
Zebrafish ↓ (131)
Atlantic cod ↓ (132)
Channel catfish ↓ (133)
Common carp ↓ (124)
Cunner ↓ (112)
Goldfish ↓ (134)
Pacu ↓ (88)
Platyfish ↓ (114)
Red-bellied piranha ↓ (135)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (91)
Siberian sturgeon↑ (92)
Winter flounder ↓ (117)
Winter skate = (118)
Rainbow trout = (121)
Orexin Dourado ↑ (87)
Zebrafish = (136)
Blind cave fish ↑ (89)
Cunner ↓ (112)
Goldfish ↑ (134)
Pacu ↑ (88)
Platyfish ↑ (114)
Red-bellied piranha ↑ (135)
Zebrafish ↑ (136, 137)
MCH Starry flounder ↑ (138) Atlantic code ↑ (139)
Barfin flounder ↑ (140)
Hammerhead shark = (141)
Schizothorax prenanti ↑ (142)
Winter flounder ↑ (143)
Zebrafish ↑ (144)
Nesf-1 Zebrafish = (93) Goldfish ↑ (50)
Ya-fish ↑ (51)
Zebrafish = (93)
Goldfish ↓ (50)
Ya-fish ↓ (51)
Zebrafish ↓ (93)
Goldfish ↑ (50)
Ya-fish ↑ (51)
Zebrafish ↓ (93)
Ghrelin Atlantic salmon ↑ (145)
Tilapia = (97)
Blunt snout bream ↑ (109)
Grass carp ↑ (146)
Schizothorax prenanti = (100)
Zebrafish = (147)
Zebrafish ↑ (148)
Atlantic salmon ↑ (149)
Atlantic salmon ↓ (145)
Blunt snout
bream ↑ (109)
Chinese perch ↓ (150)
Gibel carp = (98)
Grass carp ↑ (146)
Schizothorax davidi ↑ (151)
Schizothorax prenanti = (100)
Sea bass = (152)
Tilapia = (97)
Zebrafish ↓ (153)
Zebrafish ↑ (148)
Atlantic salmon = (145)
Goldfish =
(93)
Hybrid striped bass ↑ (154)
Rainbow trout = (96)
Tilapia = (155)
Tilapia ↑ (97)
Blunt snout bream ↑ (109)
Goldfish
= ↑ (93, 156)
Grass carp ↑ (146)
Red-bellied piranha = (157)
Zebrafish = (147)
Zebrafish ↑ (148)
Atlantic salmon = (145)
Blunt snout
bream ↑ (109)
Gibel carp ↑ (98)
Goldfish ↑ (93, 156)
Grass carp ↑ (146)
Red-bellied piranha ↑ (157)
Schizothorax davidi ↑ (151)
Sea bass ↑ (152)
Tilapia = (97)
Zebrafish ↑ (148)
CCK Blunt snout bream ↓ (109)
Dourado = (87)
Grass carp ↓ (158)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (102)
Atlantic salmon = (149)
Blunt snout bream ↓ (109)
Dourado = (87)
Grass carp ↓ (158)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (102)
White sea bream ↑ (CCK-1), ↓ (CCK- 2) (159)
Yellowtail ↓ (160)
Zebrafish ↓ (153)
Blind cave fish = (89)
Blunt snout bream ↓ (109)
Grass carp ↓ (158)
Pacu = (88)
Red-bellied piranha = (135)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (102)
Winter skate = (118)
Platyfish ↓ (114)
Cunner ↓ (112)
Blunt snout bream ↓ (109)
Grass carp ↓ (158)
Pacu ↓ (88)
Platyfish ↓ (114)
Red-bellied piranha = (135)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (102)
Winter flounder ↓ (117)
Winter skate ↑ (118)
Cunner ↓ (112)
PYY Goldfish ↓ (63)
Siberian sturgeon ↓ (104)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (103)
Siberian sturgeon ↓ (104)
Atlantic salmon = (149)
Yellowtail ↑ (160)
Blind cave fish = (89)
Goldfish ↓ (63)
Nile tilapia ↓ (113)
Red-bellied piranha = (135)
Siberian sturgeon ↓ (104)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (103)
Nile tilapia ↓ (113)
Red-bellied piranha ↓ (135)
Siberian sturgeon ↓ (104)
Leptin Mandarin fish ↑ (105) Common carp = (161)
Mandarin fish ↑ (105)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (102)
Fine flounder ↑ (162, 163)
Rainbow trout ↑ (164)
Tilapia ↑ (1)
Goldfish = (106)
Orange-spotted grouper = (165)
Pacu = (88)
Red-bellied piranha = (157)
Tilapia = (166)
Common carp = (161)
European sea bass ↑ (167)
Goldfish = (106)
Green sunfish ↓ (168)
Orange-spotted grouper ↑ (165)
Pacu = (88)
Rainbow trout ↑ (169)
Red-bellied piranha ↓ (157)
Schizothorax prenanti ↓ (102)
Striped bass ↓ (170)
Tilapia ↑ (1)
White-clouds Mountain minnow ↑ (171)
Zebrafish ↓ (172)
Fine flounder = (163)
Rainbow trout = (121)
Arctic charr ↑ (173)
Atlantic salmon = (107)
Eel = (174)
Rainbow trout ↑ (121)

= levels not altered; ↑ levels upregulated; ↓ levels downregulated.