Chemical pathology of acute amino acid deficiencies: reversibility of the pathologic changes in rats force-fed a threonine-devoid diet

Verney, E.; Sidransky, H.

Journal of Nutrition 101(12): 1727-1736

1971


ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3166
PMID: 5126265
Document Number: 43754
Young female Sprague-Dawley rats were force-fed with complete or threonine-devoid diet for 3 days and then the complete diet for 1 or 2 feedings (killed 6 h later) or 3 feedings (killed 14 h later). Hepatic lipid, glycogen and protein content and incorporation of leucine-14C into proteins in liver, plasma, skeletal muscle, spleen and kidney were studied.

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