Studies on the Utilization of Dietary Isoleucine by the Growing Albino Rat I. Isoleucine Requirements Determined with Amino Acid Mixtures

Abstract

The minimum amount of L-isoleucine required to promote minimum wastage of dietary nitrogen by growing albino rats fed diets whose nitrogen was supplied as amino acids amounting to 8.49 and 15.30% conventional protein equivalent was found to be 2.6% of the conventional protein equivalent of the diets, irrespective of the total nitrogen content of the diet.