Journal of Nutrition and Health
- Volume 14 Issue 3
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- Pages.129-135
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- 1981
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- 2288-3886(pISSN)
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- 2288-3959(eISSN)
Effect of Maternal Phenylalanine Deficiency on the Growth of Their Offsprings
어미쥐의 Phenylalanine 결핍(缺乏)이 새끼쥐의 성장발육(成長發育)에 미치는 영향(影響)
- Song, Kyung-Hee (Dept. of Food & Nutrition, Seoul National University) ;
- Choi, Hay-Mie (Dept. of Food & Nutrition, Seoul National University)
- Published : 1981.09.30
Abstract
Low phenylalanine diet(0.05%) was given to the Sprague Dawley pregnant rats at the 14 days of gestation and continued until the pups were lactated for 11 days. Body weight, plasma phenylalanine and tyrosine, brain weight, and brain phenylalanine and tyrosine were determined on pups randomly sacrificed at several intervals. Body weight of pups on normal diet (0. 36% phenylalanine) gained rapidly while the pups on the phenylalanine deficient diet decreased and did not survive during the period of 11 days. Brain weight of the pups on the phenylalanine deficient diet was significantly lower(P < 0.05) than the normal pups. Phenylalanine deficient diet did not affect the level of plasma phenylalanine of pups, but it seems that there was a positive correlation between the level of phenylalanine in the diet and the plasma tyrosine level. The plasma tyrosine level of pups on the deficient diet was decreased significantly during the Period while the pups on the normal diet increased steadily. Phenylalanine and tyrosine level in the brain was lower in Pups on the deficient diet than the pups on normal diet but the plasma phenylalanine level was not significantly different in both diets. However, plasma tyrosine level was significantly lower in the pups on the deficient diet than the normal diet at the end of the period.
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