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A study of the effect of variation in dietary fat levels, protein quality and B vitamins supplementation, on lipid composition and distribution in blood and liver in rats.

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Title A study of the effect of variation in dietary fat levels, protein quality and B vitamins supplementation, on lipid composition and distribution in blood and liver in rats.
 
Creator Urmila, Marfatia
Rao, T. B.
Sreenivasan, A.
 
Subject 11 Lipid Biochemistry
12 Metabolism
 
Description The food intake of weanling rats is marke~ly influenced by the available energy content
of the diet. It has been suggested! that, within physiological limits, animals eat to satisfy
their energy requirements. Hill and Danskl observed that food intake was chiefly
influenced by the energy content of the ration, while the protein level has little or no effect.
The ratio of protein to available energy exerts a considerable influence on fat deposition in
anima1s3
• Dietary fat has a protein sparing action4 which may be influenced by the calories:
protein ratio. It has been observed5 that optimum growth and optimum feed efficiency
are closely related to a rather sensitive balance between the amount of protein and the
caloric content of the diet. Thus, the growth promoting potential of an adequate
diet cannot be based on the percentage of protein alone, but the calories: protein ratio
has also to be considered.
In recent years, a great deal of evidence has accumulated6 implicating dietary fat in
the causation of cardiovascular disease. Interest has chiefly centred round the relationship
of dietary fatty acid components to the metabolism of cholesterol. More recent work
implicates dietary proteins7 , 8 and vitamins6 , 9 as well. In view of the above, it was thought
to be of interest to study the effects of variations in calories: protein ratio on lipid composition
and distribution in blood and liver under conditions varied with respect to
B vitamins intake.
 
Date 1960
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/2612/1/Proceedings_of_the_Symposium_on_Proteins_1961_133-139.pdf
Urmila, Marfatia and Rao, T. B. and Sreenivasan, A. (1960) A study of the effect of variation in dietary fat levels, protein quality and B vitamins supplementation, on lipid composition and distribution in blood and liver in rats. Proc of the symposium on Proteins, Mysore, August. pp. 133-139.