THE EFFECT OF DIET ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF GLYCOGEN IN THE SKELETAL MUSCLE OF THE RAT

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The glycogen content of the muscles of rats tends to vary directly with the % of carbohydrate in the diet, being over 50% greater in rats on a high carbohydrate diet than in rats on a high protein diet. Glycogen content tends to run about 18% higher in the gastrocnemius than in the 3 muscles of the upper leg. There is substantial evidence of higher glycogen content in the muscles of the right leg than in muscles of the left, attributable either to differences existing in the living animal or to greater loss of blood from muscles of the left leg, which was uniformly dissected after the right leg.

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