INFLUENCE OF FAT IN THE DIET UPON NITROGEN BALANCE AND LIVER REGENERATION

Abstract

Equal total amts. of calories, N, vitamins and salts were fed to rats after 70% hepatectomy, in diets containing 3, 10 or 30% fat. The liver composition was essentially identical on all diets. N conservation was slightly less and body wt. gains significantly greater on the 10 and 30% fat diets. Removal of choline from the diet, although causing heavy fatty infiltration in the regenerating liver, did not impair protein restoration. In exptl. liver regeneration fat in the diet was not deleterious.