An amino acid diet supporting superior growth in mice
Hilton, M.A.; Raque, G.H.
Journal of Nutrition 110(12): 2409-2413
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3166 PMID: 6160223 Document Number: 162517
A diet containing, as a source of nitrogen, a mixture of purified L-amino acids simulating the amino acid composition of a successful diet containing vegetable and milk proteins was given to mice in a 3% agar gel. This diet, at 17% amino acids, supported better growth of young male mice during 21 days than did the same assortment of amino acids at 23% of the diet, a commercial mouse food or the same basic diet containing a different assortment of amino acids from a published diet developed for rats. Cystine was removed from the diet, which contained 0.317% methionine and no choline, and this diet, given for 52 days, continued to support growth and produced no microscopic evidence of fatty liver.