Abstract
A deficiency of vit. E in a 10% casein diet lowered the liver fat of young rats from 12.7% to 8.7% on the dry basis. Following CCI4 poisoning the extent and course of fatty changes in the liver was not influenced by vit. E, although this upplement lessened the growth depression during 8 wks. on chronic CCI4 treatment. The O2 uptake by liver slices in glucose-Ringers increased 100% within 24 hrs. after CCl4 injns. into rats without dietary vit. E, but increased only about 30% when rats received this factor. Supplements of vit. B12 did not influence respiration rates. The choline oxidase of rat liver was not influenced by either vit. E or CC14.