1963 年 21 巻 6 号 p. 155-160
The riciprocity between the Quality of dietary protein and the maintenance of liver enzyme activity in rats have been investigated.
The results are as follows:
1) We have found paralleled relation between the xanthine oxidase activity of rat's liver and growth in weanling rats fed the same protein by using 15 kinds of food protein respectively. Arginase, however, hasn't brought us such relation.
2) Next we have found that with the kind of carbohydrate and fat in the diet, there was no influence upon the activity of rat's liver enzyme under fixed condition.
Judging from these results, we can presume that under the fixed condition the activity response of rat's liver xanthine oxidase can be used as a criterion for estimation of protein quality.