Methionine and threonine supplementation of a protein poor diet during lactation--effect on diet intake of dam and weight of dam and pup, and on plasma threonine and liver neutral lipid content of dam
1988
Leclerc, J. | Hamel, O. | Grynberg, A.
Increasing the methionine content of the diet from 0 to 0.3% resulted in an increase of diet intake by the dams which induced a decrease of their weight losses and a better growing of the pups. A threonine additional supplementation had no effect on these parameters. In the lactating rat, the neutral lipid content of liver increased with a 0.1% methionine supplementation of a low protein diet and reached a plateau with 0.3-0.4%. Moreover, a threonine deficiency and a steatosis was observed from the 0.1% methionine supplementation level. A threonine supplementation did not prevent the methionine induced modifications observed during lactation. This inefficiency of threonine concerned neutral lipid content as well as morphological alterations of liver.
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