Choline Deficiency in the Hamster

Abstract

Summary

Young hamsters develop fatty livers when fed choline deficient rations containing peanut meal, although the mean increment in liver fat is only half that found in rats on the same diet. This may be correlated with the finding that hamster livers and kidneys possess markedly less choline oxidase activity than do the livers and kidneys of rats or may be due solely to the relatively poor appetite and growth of hamsters on these rations.