Effects of Nutrition on the Radiation Susceptibility (Report 3)

Relationship between Liver-Thiobarbituric Acid Value and Body Weight Gain in Rats of Various Ages

Abstract

Weanling Wistar strain albino rats were fed on a commercial pellet diet for 9 weeks. Thiobarbituric acid value of liver homogenates was determined at every 7 days till 6 weeks, and at 9 weeks.
The liver-TBA value decreased till 4 weeks acompanying with a decrease of body weight gain per week. However, a temporal high value was obtained after 5 weeks and then the value became lower gradually to the end week. The body weight gain per week during each period showed the quite same tendency as seen in the liver-TBA value.