Abstract
Summary
Young hyperthyroid rats fed a diet high in crystalline B-complex vitamins grew fairly well but nevertheless showed a low concentration of glycogen in their livers and hearts. Additional supplementation with liver meal increased their growth rate to normal, but exerted no apparent favorable effect on the glycogen content of these organs. The decrease in cardiac glycogen concentration can be explained in part on the marked cardiac hypertrophy which is associated with experimental hyperthyroidism in the rat.
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