Effects of vitamin A deficiency and adrenalectomy on ubiquinone and substance SC in rat liver
- 1 November 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 73 (3), 430-433
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0730430
Abstract
The rises in ubiquinone and substance concentration SC which occur in the livers of vitamin A-deficient rats may be hastened if at an early stage in the deficiency the rats are bilaterally adrenalectomized. If, however, the deficiency syndrome is already far advanced adrenalectomy does not noticeably influence the concentrations of minor constituents of liver unsaponifiable matter. In rats on a stock diet adrenalectomy brought about no striking changes in liver vitamin A (range 137-216 I.U./g of liver), ubiquinone content (range 110-133 [mu]g /g) or sterol content (range 1.80-2.23 mg./g). Substance SC was not present in more than trace amounts.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Vitamin A deficiency and the ubiquinone and substance SC contents of rat liver: the time factorBiochemical Journal, 1959
- Unsaponifiable fraction of lipid from normal and diseased human kidneyBiochemical Journal, 1959
- FUNCTION OF VITAMIN-A IN METABOLISM .2. VITAMIN-A AND ADRENOCORTICAL HORMONES1958
- Aspects of vitamin A deficiency in the ratBiochemical Journal, 1957
- STUDIES ON THE FUNCTION OF VITAMIN A IN METABOLISMJournal of Biological Chemistry, 1957
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF RADIOACTIVE CARBON IN THE RAT AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION OF RANDOMLY LABELLED C-14-BETA-CAROTENE1957
- A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VITAMIN A METABOLISM AND CORTISONEEndocrinology, 1955
- Aspects of Vitamin a Deficiency in RatsNature, 1953
- EFFECT OF REICHSTEIN'S COMPOUND L ACETATE ON PLASMA, LIVER, AND KIDNEY VITAMIN AJournal of Biological Chemistry, 1951
- Vitamin A and caroteneBiochemical Journal, 1934