Dietary Protein and Serum Electrophoretic Patterns of the Adult Rat.

Abstract

Filter paper electrophoretic analyses showed decreases in the albumin, a1-, a2-, and B globulin fractions following inanition, acute and chronic protein depletion regimens. Purified diets containing 17% or more of casein not only restored all values to normal but elicited increases in total serum protein concentrations. A differential response of the a2-globulin fraction occurred upon repletion between groups previously subjected to acute and to chronic depletion. Increased A/G ratios were found in groups repleted with a diet of natural products.[long dash]Authors.