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The toxic actions of ethionine on the growth of rats and the protective action of methionine reported by Dyer 2 has been confirmed. It has been shown that ethionine prevents the accumulation of liver fat and the hemorrhagic kidney degeneration on low methionine, low choline diets. The diethyl analogue of choline also prevents the fatty livers and kidney lesions of rats on similar diets. The action of these compounds does not appear to involve their direct participation in phospholipid formation.
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