Feeding free fatty acids to study lipid metabolism in rats
1979
Chen, S.C.-H.
Extract: A 12-week rat feeding study was conducted to test the feasibility of feeding dietary fat in the form of free fatty acids (FFA) in large quantities, over an extended period of time. Male weanling rats were fed 3 diets: diet 15CO contained corn oil at 15 percent by weight, diet 35CO contained 35 percent corn oil, and diet 35FA contained 35 percent FFA isolated from corn oil. Results from the study suggest that FFA in large quantities can be used by rats as the sole source of fat. Feeding FFA may be a useful approach to long term studies of 1) lipid metabolism, 2) the intestinal reesterification mechanism, and 3) the dietary treatment of malabsorption syndromes due to diseases of the pancreas.
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