The Food Intake and Nitrogen Retention of Weanling Rats Fed Protein-Free Rations

Autor: Sibbald, Ian R., Bowland, John P., Berg, Roy T., Robblee, Alex R.
Zdroj: The Journal of Nutrition; June 1957, Vol. 62 Issue: 2 p171-183, 13p
Abstrakt: Variations in the food consumption of weanling rats, fed rations containing a mixture of indispensable amino acids and diammonium citrate, were largely associated with the apparent digestible energy (A.D.E.) content of the diets. The influence of bulk (as measured by dry density) on food intake could not be entirely resolved but there was some indication that the influence of dry density on food consumption resulted from its high association, in these experiments, with the A.D.E. content of the food. The gross nitrogen level of the rations, and hence the diammonium citrate content, did not exert any significant influence on food consumption.
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