... that raise plasma fatty acids levels (e.g. diabetes and starvation) may impair immune function by causing lymphocyte death. Correspondence: Dr Rosemari Otton, at Cruzeiro do Sul University, Biological Sciences and Health Centre, Regente Feijo, 1295, Analia Franco 03342-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (email...

...-mail nep.deutz@ah.unimaas.nl ). 10 10 2002 7 1 2003 18 2 2003 18 2 2003 © 2003 The Biochemical Society 2003 3-methylhistidine lipopolysaccharide protein metabolism starvation Clinical Science (2003) 104, 585 590 (Printed in Great Britain) 585 Measuring whole-body actin...

..., a peptide hormone found in gastrointestinal contents and trophic for small bowel mucosa, would prevent the mucosal atrophy associated with starvation.¡ 2. Adult rats were: (i) fasted for 3 days, (ii) fasted and then refed for 1 day or (iii) fasted and then refed for 2 days. During the 2 days before study...

...J. Webber; E. Simpson; H. Parkin; I. A. MacDonald 1. The effects of acutely raising blood ketone body levels to those seen after 72 h of starvation were examined in 10 subjects after an overnight fast. Metabolic rate and respiratory exchange ratio were measured with indirect calorimetry before...

... was not increased further by the cytokines. The plasma triacylglycerol level was increased, although the absolute change was less than in fed rats. The ketonaemia associated with starvation tended to be increased by the cytokines, but this was only significant in the case of interleukin-1-α. Parallel changes...

... rates ( k s ), the whole-body fractional protein degradation rate ( k d ), the capacity for protein synthesis ( C s ) and the efficiency of protein synthesis ( k RNA ) in vivo in fed and fasted (1, 5 and about 9 days) 400 g rats. 2. One day of starvation resulted in a reduced k s and an increased k d...

...%). At 30–36 h and 60–66 h of starvation, essentially all the non-protein energy was derived from the oxidation of fat (directly plus indirectly via ketone bodies). 3. After an overnight fast, acetoacetate and 3-hydroxybutyrate were taken up by forearm muscle at a rate which could account for 5...

...D. G. Maxton; I. S. Menzies; B. Slavin; R. P. H. Thompson 1. Small-intestinal absorption and permeability were measured in nine patients with malnutrition who were receiving liquid enteral nutrition after different periods of starvation, in five patients receiving enteral nutrition without...

... in temperature was not significantly different from that seen in the normally fed state. After 48 h starvation, the rise in temperature on cooling was reduced from 0.30 (sem 0.03) to 0.10 (0.04)°C ( P < 0.01). In two subjects in whom central body temperature had been maintained in the normally fed state...

...R. A. Goodlad; J. A. Plumb; N. A. Wright 1. Intestinal epithelial cell production and intestinal absorption were measured in fed, starved and refed rats. 2. Four days' starvation significantly decreased the crypt cell production rate (CCPR), absorption, small intestinal length and crypt cell...

...M. Elia; A. Goren; R. Behrens; R. W. Barber; G. Neale 1. The effect of total starvation for 4–5 days on the intestinal uptake and urinary excretion of markers from an orally administered mixture of mannitol (5 g), [ 14 C]mannitol (0.5 μCi), lactulose (10 g) and 51 Cr-labelled ethylenediaminetetra...

... is closely linked to functional capacity and both of these are also related to the food intake. Key words: absorption, cell division, diabetes, food intake, gastrointestinal tract, hypophysectomy, intestine, lactation, proliferation, starvation. Abbreviation: CCPR, crypt cell production rate. Introduction...

... starvation. This further increase was associated with an increase in the half-life of injected 3-hydroxybutyrate. 4. The pre-injection concentration of alanine almost halved during starvation and the half-life of injected alanine increased. 5. If the changes in half-life of exogenous 3-hydroxybutyrate...

...M. Elia; Rose Farrell; Vera Ilic; R. Smith; D. H. Williamson 1. To investigate the effects of starvation, elective surgery, accidental injury and other clinical conditions on the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids in man, we have measured the basal concentration of leucine and the removal...

... patients, unaltered by starvation, and decreased in the cirrhotic patients. 3. Increases in blood glucose were observed when alanine infusion was performed 6 h after surgery and after 3 days' starvation. Increases in blood lactate and pyruvate always occurred after alanine infusion but were most marked 6 h...

... for the hyperbilirubinaemia. bilirubin metabolism dietary lipid Gunn rat starvation unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia 10 1 1979 18 4 1979 © 1979 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1979 Clinical Science (1979) 57,321-331 The role of dietary lipid in the regulation...

...H. P. Schedl; D. Burston; Elizabeth Taylor; D. M. Matthews 1. This paper reports an investigation of the effects of semistarvation and starvation on the kinetics of uptake of an amino acid, l-leucine, and a hydrolysis-resistant dipeptide, Gly-Sar, by rings of everted hamster jejunum and ileum...

... anaesthesia and starvation on hepatic transport of dibromosulphthalein was also studied. The influence of bile salts on the hepatic transport process was investigated by interruption of the enterohepatic circulation. 2. Maximal biliary transport of dibromosulphthalein was subject to circadian variations...