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Young rats were force-fed a lysine + arginine-devoid diet or a complete diet for 3 days, and selected biochemical and morphologic studies were conducted. Rats force-fed the experimental diet in comparison with those force-fed the control diet for 3 days showed decreased body weight gain,
From the liver of a young man who died of typical, " idiopathic" acute yellow atrophy of the liver, after an illness of six weeks, there were isolated and identified the following amino acids: Histidin, lysin, tyrosin, leucin, glycocoll, alanin, prolin, glutaminic acid, aspartic acid. These were
The results above reported lead to the conclusion that while in the degenerating cells chemical changes are taking place tending toward a diminution of the hexon bases as a whole, they affect the arginin especially. One may picture the process either as a partial or as a complete breaking down of
1. The liver of the dog in which necrosis has been produced by injection of haematoxic immune sera is characterized in the less marked forms by a storing up of nitrogen in the persisting living cells, while in the diffuse forms the total nitrogen content is but slightly above the normal. This last
In lysinuric protein intolerance, a disease resulting from an autosomal recessive disorder of diamino acid transport, citrulline, unlike arginine and lysine, is absorbed normally from the intestine. In 19 patients with LPI, the status after 2 years of treatment with citrulline or citrulline + lysine