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Studies on unidentified growth factors

2. Progressin, a growth factor for chicks*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2011

J. Bunyan ,
Elspeth A. Murrell ,
M. A. Cawthorne  and
B. T. Redman
J. Bunyan
Affiliation:
Beecham Research Laboratories, Nutritional Research Centre, Walton Oaks, Tadworth, Surrey
Elspeth A. Murrell
Affiliation:
Beecham Research Laboratories, Nutritional Research Centre, Walton Oaks, Tadworth, Surrey
M. A. Cawthorne
Affiliation:
Beecham Research Laboratories, Nutritional Research Centre, Walton Oaks, Tadworth, Surrey
B. T. Redman
Affiliation:
Beecham Research Laboratories, Nutritional Research Centre, Walton Oaks, Tadworth, Surrey
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Abstract

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1. Chicks at 10 d of age were given diets containing all the nutrients known to be required, with L-amino acids in place of protein. Dietary supplements were added isonitrogenously.

2. Ox liver (100 g/kg) greatly improved the chicks' growth rate, whereas torula yeast (50 g/kg) was inactive. The activity of fresh moist liver was considered to be due largely to an organic factor, because of the inactivity of water and the low activity of liver ash.

3. The growth rates of chicks receiving diets based upon casein and isolated soya-bean protein were significantly improved by the inclusion of 100 g fresh ox liver/kg, but not of 50 g torula yeast/kg.

4. These results show that chicks receiving an amino acid diet require an organic growth factor (Progressin) that differs from the yeast factor required by rats receiving an amino acid diet.

Type
General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , March 1974 , pp. 179 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1974

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