Ammonia Intoxication in the Near-Adult Cat as a Result of a Dietary Deficiency of Arginine
- 27 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4327), 431-432
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.619464
Abstract
Near-adult cats, fasted overnight, and given a single meal of a complete amino acid diet without arginine, developed hyperammonemia and showed clinical symptoms of ammonia toxicity within 2 hours. One cat (2.7 kilograms) died 4.5 hours after ingesting only 8 grams of the diet. Since ornithine also prevented hyperammonemia, it appears that the domestic cat cannot synthesize ornithine.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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