{"topic_id":"evidence_exotic_gerbil_nutrition","category":"evidence","context":"---\ntopic_id: evidence_exotic_gerbil_nutrition\ncategory: evidence\ntitle: \"Pet Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) — diet & nutrition — representative studies (Europe PMC)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Europe PMC REST search (europepmc.org), curated pet-nutrition query, pulled 2026-07-22\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_evidence_exotic_gerbil_nutrition_2026-07-22.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-22\ntokens_estimated: 260\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 15\n  passed: 15\n  date: 2026-07-22\n---\n\n# Pet Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) — diet & nutrition — representative studies (Europe PMC)\nSource: Europe PMC REST search (curated), 2026-07-22. 3 representative pet/companion-animal nutrition studies (model-organism / production / wild-ecology papers excluded during contamination audit).\n\n1. PMID 39397488 — Gut microbiota are involved in leptin-induced thermoregulation in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). (The Journal of experimental biology, 2024). Abstract (opening): Leptin is a hormone that is secreted by adipocytes and may promote energy expenditure by increasing thermogenesis. Our previous studies have shown that thermo-transient receptor po\n2. PMID 40375467 — Specific Adaptive Mechanisms in Water-Sodium Regulation in a Desert Rodent Fed With Salty Diets. (Comprehensive Physiology, 2025). Abstract (opening): High-salt diets (HSD) are known to cause renal injury and hypertension in mice, rats, or even humans. Desert rodents have evolved an ability to adapt to water scarcity and concentr\n3. PMID 38925864 — An Overview of Management Considerations for Mongolian Gerbils ( (Comparative medicine, 2024). Abstract (opening): Lymphatic filariasis is a mosquito-borne parasitic infection affecting an estimated 51.4 million people.\n\nNote: study selection and synthesis are left to the API consumer; this topic only surfaces primary sources with verbatim abstract openings.\n\nSource text: `pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_evidence_exotic_gerbil_nutrition_2026-07-22.txt` (Europe PMC REST + PubMed efetch, 2026-07-22).\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":260,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}