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Rats subsisting on a diet containing 76% corn and 3% or less casein, developed a fatty liver characterized by initial and preponderant accumulation of lipid in the portal areas. Rats of the same strain on a diet in which the only protein was casein, developed a centrolobular type of fatty liver. Methionine, choline, and vit. B12 were able to decrease the liver lipid. However, methionine was rarely capable of preventing the deposition of some excess fat while, under certain conditions, the lipotropic action of vit. Bi2 was unpredictable.
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