Choline Deficiency in the Hamster
- 1 December 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 72 (3) , 569-571
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-72-17502
Abstract
Young hamsters develop fatty livers when fed choline-deficient rations containing peanut meal, although the mean increment in liver fat is only half that found in rats on the same diet. This may be correlated with the finding that hasmter livers and kidneys possess markedly less choline oxidase activity than do the livers and kidneys of rats or may be due solely to the relatively poor appetite and growth of hamsters on these rations.Keywords
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