reduces food intake and weight gain in rats when injected into the peritoneal cavity twice daily for 7 days. Numerous laboratories have failed to confirm that daily injections of PYY(3-36) decrease body weight. Continuous subcutaneous administration of PYY(3-36) by osmotic minipump has been reported to reduce daily food intake in rodents but only during the first 3-4 days of administration. Here we show the effects of different daily patterns of intravenous infusion of PYY(3-36) on food intake, body weight, and adiposity in rats tethered via infusion swivels to computercontrolled pumps. Measurement of food bowl weight recorded by computer every 20 s permitted daily assessment of the instantaneous effects of PYY(3-36) administration on food intake and meal patterns. One-hour intravenous infusions of PYY(3-36) at 30 pmol ⅐ kg Ϫ1 ⅐ min Ϫ1 every other hour for 10 days produced a sustained reduction in daily food intake of ϳ20% and decreased body weight and adiposity by 7 and 35%, respectively. Thus dosage pattern is critical for producing a sustained effect of PYY(3-36) on food intake and adiposity.gastrointestinal; body weight; body composition THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM plays an important sensing and signaling role in control of food intake and regulation of energy reserves (5). A growing number of peptide signals of gastric, intestinal, and pancreatic origin have been shown to inhibit short-term food intake when administered acutely to experimental animals and humans. These include cholecystokinin, amylin, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), oxyntomodulin, peptide YY(3-36) ], pancreatic polypeptide, gastrinreleasing peptides (GRPs) GRP-27 and GRP-