Abstract
Summary
Rats allowed diets containing 0.1% ACPC ad libitum for a 3-day period exhibited decreases in food intake and growth rate as compared to animals given the basal diet. Significant reductions occurred in the levels of the amino acids in plasma and tissues of rats receiving ACPC. When food intake was maintained by feeding with a stomach tube, no appreciable differences were found in growth rate or in the composition of the amino acid pools of animals injected with ACPC as compared to animals injected with saline. It would appear that ACPC does not affect the distribution of amino acids in animal tissues or the growth rate when food intake is controlled.
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