Abstract
The young rats fed on a myo-inositol-deficient diet showed no doubt the increase in body weight during the initial 45 days of breeding, and was scarcely found any symptoms of spectacled eye or alopecia in appearance, even after the prolonged breeding for more than 3 months. However, there was a marked difference in the growth rate between the animals fed on a myo-inositol-deficient diet and those fed on a myo-inositol-containing diet. The mean daily increase in body weight of rats fed on 0.5 to 2.0mg of myo-inositol was fairly higher than that of those fed on a myo-inositol-deficient diet. Four trials of experiments were performed with high reproducibility.
