Rat serum osteocalcin concentration is determined by food intake and not by inflammation
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The effect of nutrition and inflammation on osteocalcin and other hormonesin growing rats was studied. Rats were artificially subjected to starvation and inflammation and compared to well fed control groups. Serum osteocalcin was noted to decrease 72 hours after the start of starvation and was restored by food intake. These suggested that starvation affected osteocalcin levels, independent of dihydroxycholecalciferol levels. Starvation also enhanced insulin control of osteocalcin synthesis. Inflammation does not affect osteocalcin although the consequent lower food intake lowered its levels.
Publication Name: The Journal of Nutrition
Subject: Food/cooking/nutrition
ISSN: 0022-3166
Year: 1992
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Perinatal protein deprivation enhances the anticonflict effect measured after chronic ethanol administration in adult rats
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A study was done on rats chronically administered with ethanol to determine the effects of perinatal protein deprivation. Control and protein-deprived rats showed similar responses to the anticonflict effects of ethanol, diazepam and pentobarbital. Control rats exhibited tolerance to ethanol and cross-tolerance to the anxiolytic effect of diazepam after chronic ethanol administration. Protein-deprived rats subjected to the same treatment showed greater gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors which correlates with the greater anxiolytic effect found in protein-deprived rats.
Publication Name: The Journal of Nutrition
Subject: Food/cooking/nutrition
ISSN: 0022-3166
Year: 1992
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