Abstract
Relationship between food intake and liver lipid content of young female rats fed an 8% casein diet supplemented with or without 0.3% of methionine was studied.
Food intake of the basal (8% casein only) diet group was approximately 80% of that of the methionine supplemented diet group. When rats fed the basal diet were forced to feed the basal diet as same calories as that of animals fed the methionine supplemented diet group, liver lipid content was increased.
On the other hand, when food intake of rats fed the methionine supplemented diet was restricted at the amount of that of the basal diet group, liver lipid content of the methionine supplemented diet group was decreased. But in either cases, liver lipid content of the methionine supplemented diet group was higher than that of the basal diet group.
No relationship was observed between liver lipid content and plasma triglyceride level or between liver lipid content and liver glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity. Close corelation between plasma triglyceride level and plasma cholesterol level was observed.
