[Protein and amino acid composition of newborn rats under defective nutritional conditions]

The law protein nutrition of the nursing rat inhibits the growth of the new born rats. A percentage reduction of the dry substances by decrease of N2-free substances takes place. In relation to g dry substance the body protein content, collagen also, rises. Absolutely, these parts rest unaltered, just so the relation of the parenchymatous protein to collagen. The often support of view that starving provokes a collagen formation of the body, that means an exceed of the framework, can not be confirmed. Though in this paper we can give an explanation for the occurrence of this conclusion. Long interuptions of lactation periods remarkably have no effect on the growth and on the amin compartments of the body of new born rats. Only tryptophane is reduced in favour of the serine-fraction in the body of those animals. We discuss this finding as a change of the metabolisme of tryptophane depending of stress.