Abstract
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1. Addition of heparin to intravenously administered fat emulsion in rats resulted in a marked increase in the rate of disappearance of the fat from the blood and a decrease in the accumulation of fat in the spleen and liver. Heparin apparently caused a change in the physical state of the fat in the blood resulting in decreased turbidity and this altered fat rapidly left the blood. 2. Lipemic blood from rats either fed fat or injected with fat emulsion showed elevated serum hemoglobin concentrations. Injection of heparin with fat emulsion resulted in higher serum hemoglobin levels than injection of fat emulsion alone but this difference was seen only when the blood was allowed to stand for a period after it had been drawn.
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