Dietary protein: a trigger of insulin-dependent diabetes in the BB rat?
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Diabetologia
- Vol. 26 (4) , 297-299
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00283653
Abstract
Animals from a colony of spontaneously diabetic insulin-dependent BB rats were fed from weaning with semisynthetic diets in which natural proteins were replaced by l-amino acids with or without the addition of either milk or wheat proteins. The normal 50% incidence of diabetes in the colony was reduced to 15% in rats fed the basic semi-synthetic diet, while it was 35% and 52% when supplemented with gluten or milk, respectively. Thus, dietary factors might precipitate the expression of the disease.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Amino Acid Diets and Maximal Growth in the RatJournal of Nutrition, 1965