H. S. Sharma ¹, K. C. Goyal ¹, U. K. Misra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Biochemistry, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007, IN

Abstract

Vitamin A deficiency and protein energy malnutrition are serious nutritional disorders among socio-economically poor children in the world, excess intake of vitamin A has been indicated to afford some protection to the organism against adverse effects of unbalanced protein intake. The excessive intake of vitamin A has earlier been shown to alter the tissue lipid metabolism. These relationships between vitamin A and lipid metabolism led us to study the effect of single massive dose of vitamin A on phosphoric content and the incorporation of NaH₃³²P0₄ into phosphoric content of lungs of rats in relation to the proteins consumed.

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S. P. Mongia ¹, H. S. Sharma ¹, C. R. Vyas ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, R. N. T. Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, IN

Abstract

It has been reported by Folin that the daily excretion of creatinine is fairly constant at different ages, which can serve as an index of endogenous protein metabolism and is independent of dietary protein intake while these views were opposed by Fisher and Karambelkar et al Nakagawa et al have reported that wide variation occurred in total urinary creatinine excretion per day in animal kept on different dietary protein intake.

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