Effect of n-3 PUFA polyunsaturated fatty acids on the thymus of rats with severe protein depletion

Fernández, I.; Feliu, M.S.; Pallaro, A.N.; Slobodianik, N.H.

Medicina 57(1): 72-74

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7680
PMID: 9435374
Document Number: 474108
Severe protein deprivation at weaning provokes an arrest of cellular proliferation and maturation, and an increase of ADA and PNP activities in the thymus of growing rats. A 20% casein diet fed during 9 days was enough to reverse the effect on ADA and PNP. The supplementation with 24 mg/d of n-3 PUFA, was able to recover thymus' cellular proliferation and maturation.

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