RETENTION OF THE NITROGEN OF MIXTURES OF AMINO ACIDS ADMINISTERED TO RATS FED DIETS LOW IN PROTEIN

Abstract

Under the exptl. conditions used, all of the N of a mixture of the amino acids threonine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenyl-alanine, tryptophane and valine was retained or spared an equivalent amt. of the tissue N in adult [female] white rats.