THE discovery that some of the polyunsaturated acids are essential dietary constituents l* 2
and the early investigations of their nutritional properties actually furnished a great deal of …

RXR is a nuclear receptor that plays a central role in cell signaling by pairing with a host of
other receptors. Previously, 9-cis-retinoic acid (9cRA) was defined as a potent RXR …

The effects on glucose tolerance of prolonged fructose feeding, at a level approximating that
currently in the American diet, were examined in weanling, male Wistar rats. Two groups of …

The prominent functional versatility of pyridoxine makes it an essential dietary nutrient for
aquatic animals. Ample investigations have been undertaken to determine the optimum …

Abstract Young male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets containing added pyridoxine· HCl
at 22 mg/kg (control), 0 mg/kg or 88 mg/kg for 6 weeks. In comparison with control or …

The effect of vitamin B6 deficiency on the desaturation of linoleic acid (18: 2n-6) to γ-
linolenic acid (18: 3n-6) in rat liver microsomes was studied. Rats fed with a vitamin B6 …

Male weanling rats were meal-fed (2 hours daily) on a vitamin B-6-deficient diet for 8 weeks;
the controls were pair-fed. Vitamin B-6 deficiency led to the expected decreases in the …

Weanling male rats were fed a 6% or an 18% cottonseed oil diet, lacking pantothenate or
supplemented with graded levels of pantothenate, to determine whether a high fat diet …

Turnover rates of different cholesterol esters in rat liver and plasma were determined after
injecting fasting rats intravenously with mevalonate-2-C 14. Liver and plasma samples were …

The fatty acid composition of total lipids, neutral fat, and phospholipids in liver of rats fed low
protein rice diets deficient in and supplemented with lysine and threonine has been studied …