Oral Leucine supplementation acutely increased food intake.

<p>A. Oral gavage of a leucine solution increased the 24 h food intake (Day 3 and Day 4) compared to the days when the animals received gavage of water (Day 1 and Day 2). B. No changes in body weight were observed among the experimental days. *, significantly different (<i>P</i> < 0.05) from D1 and D2 (gavage of water).