Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) increases in plasma and colon tissue prior to estrus and circulating levels change with increasing age in reproductively competent …

ML Johnson, MJ Saffrey, VJ Taylor - Peptides, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a well-documented association between cyclic changes to food intake and the
changing ovarian hormone levels of the reproductive cycle in female mammals. Limited
research on appetite-controlling gastrointestinal peptides has taken place in females, simply
because regular reproductive changes in steroid hormones present additional experimental
factors to account for. This study focussed directly on the roles that gastrointestinal-secreted
peptides may have in these reported, naturally occurring, changes to food intake during the …