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[Formulating a non-fat diet to induce essential fatty acid deficiency in rats]
G Martín Peña1, J P Barro Ordovas, S González del Tanago
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital de Móstoles.
Nutricion Hospitalaria
|February 12, 2000
Abstract
Objective:
To describe the manufacture of an experimental diet to cause essential fatty acids deficiencies in rats.
Material And Methods:
Rats. We used Wistar rats that were given a diet consisting of skimmed milk, starch, and dextrino maltose. The fatty acids were measured by means of gas chromatography.
Results:
The prepared diet is considerably cheaper than laboratory animal feed and it is effective in causing a fatty acid deficiency.