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Effect of Complete and Protein Starvation and Refeeding Casein on the Vitamin A Stores in the Albino Rats


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1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004, India
2 Regional Fruit Research Station, Punjab Agricultural University, Abohar 152116, Punjab, India
3 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar 125004, Haryana, India
     

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The effect of dietary proteins on absorption, transport and storage of vitamin A from the liver has been a subject of investigation for many nutritionists. Early studies,have shown that with a low level of dietary proteins, vitamin A storage in the liver was reduced and the rate at which stored vitamin A depleted was raised. Friend et al Mathew and Beaton, Deshmukh and Ganguly and Frape et al have confirmed these findings.
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V. K. Thapar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004, India
S. K. Munshi
Regional Fruit Research Station, Punjab Agricultural University, Abohar 152116, Punjab, India
D. S. Wagle
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar 125004, Haryana, India

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The effect of dietary proteins on absorption, transport and storage of vitamin A from the liver has been a subject of investigation for many nutritionists. Early studies,have shown that with a low level of dietary proteins, vitamin A storage in the liver was reduced and the rate at which stored vitamin A depleted was raised. Friend et al Mathew and Beaton, Deshmukh and Ganguly and Frape et al have confirmed these findings.