Effect of Dietary Protein on Aflatoxin Liver Injury in Weanling Rats
Madhavan, T.V.; Gopalan, C.
Archives of Pathology 80: 123-126
1965
ISSN/ISBN: 0363-0153
PMID: 14326435
Accession: 014434639
Six male weanling rats were given 50 micro g aflatoxin daily with a diet containing only 4% casein. After 20 days they had moderate or severe liver lesions characteristic of aflatoxin injury. A similar group on a diet containing 20% casein, pair-fed with the first group, showed only mild changes in the liver. A third group of rats given the 4% casein diet without the aflatoxin showed after 20 days signs of protein deficiency.