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Improved nitrogen metabolism in rats fed on lipid-rich liquid diets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2008

Ernesto Estornell ,
Teresa Barber  and
José Cabo
Ernesto Estornell
Affiliation:
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Valéncia, Facultat de Farmácia, Avgda Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010-Valéncia, Spain
Teresa Barber
Affiliation:
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Valéncia, Facultat de Farmácia, Avgda Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010-Valéncia, Spain
José Cabo
Affiliation:
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Valéncia, Facultat de Medicina i Odontologia, Avgda Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010-Valéncia, Spain
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N metabolism was studied in young rats fed on lipid-rich, isonitrogenous, purified liquid diets, a convenient and easy technique for inducing voluntary overfeeding of energy and lipids under controlled nutritional conditions. Overfed rats showed a marked N retention at the expense of a reduced production of urea. The capacities of isolated hepatocytes to synthesize urea and glucose from added precursors were greatly diminished. The activities of the urea cycle enzymes and several enzymes involved in the availability of NH3, for this pathway were concomitantly reduced in overfed animals. Therefore, our results showed an improved N metabolism in overfed rats promoted by the overfeeding of lipids that could be due to an enhanced biosynthetic utilization and a reduced catabolism of amino acids. In addition, the versatile and accurate technique for inducing overfeeding in young rats used in the present study could have many advantages for nutritional studies.

Keywords

OverfeedingLiquid dietNitrogen metabolismUrea cycle
Type
Interactions between nitrogen and lipid metabolism
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 71 , Issue 3 , March 1994 , pp. 361 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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