THE PATTERN OF SERUM PROTEINS DURING ACCELERATED GROWTH

Abstract

Restriction of growth, as measured by body wt. and produced either by deficiency of food energy or of the essential amino acid lysine, retards the usual progress of changes in the conc. of the serum proteins in the young albino rat. The usual rise in serum globulin is observed both in the normally growing animal and in the animal stunted by either of the nutritional deficiencies employed although to a much lesser extent in the latter. Realimentation of the stunted animals results in an increase of total N of the serum which is largely due to serum albumin fraction.