Development of a diet for long-term raising of F344 rats - Relationship between dietary digestible crude protein content and digestible energy content

Experimental Animals

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 317-326

  Itoh, Hiroshi ^a,c   Ohshima, Seinosuke ^a,d   Shumiya, Seigo ^b   Sakaguchi, Ei ^c  

^a Nosan Corporation   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d National Agriculture and Food Research Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Digestible crude protein (DCP); Digestible energy (DE); F344 DuCrj rats; Long term raising

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISCHER 344 RAT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; RAT;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY PROTEINS; ENERGY INTAKE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0036651685     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.51.317     Document Type: Article

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