The Effect of Quantitative Underfeeding and of Vitamin A Deficiency on the Tissue Lipids of Rats Fed Diets Low in Cholesterol

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Abstract
Data are presented from analyses of the readily separable tissues of twenty-four rats on a low sterol basal diet in the following three states of nutrition, a) vitamin A deficient, b) limited as to food intake but given adequate vitamin supplements, c) normal controls. The percentages of lipid constituents found varied rather markedly from tissue to tissue, but apart from neutral fat, the differences observed in the lipid constituents of the individual tissues when considered with relation to the nutritional state of the animals were slight, occasionally inconsistent, but generally in the direction to be expected from earlier work on tissue lipids in undernutrition. There was no clear evidence of a specific effect of A deficiency.