Interaction Between Marginal Zinc and High Fat Supply on Lipid Metabolism and Growth of Weanling Rats |
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Authors: | Edgar Weigand Christine Boesch-Saadatmandi |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Animal Nutrition and Nutrition Physiology, Justus Liebig University, 35396 Giessen, Germany;(2) School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK |
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Abstract: | The impact of a moderate Zn deficiency on growth and plasma and liver lipids was investigated in two 4-week experiments with
male weanling rats fed fat-enriched diets. Semisynthetic, approximately isocaloric diets containing 3% soybean oil were supplemented
with either 7 or 100 mg Zn/kg diet and with 22% beef tallow (BT) or sunflower oil (SF). In Experiment 1, which compared the
dietary fat level and the fat source in a factorial design of treatments, all diets were fed ad libitum to 6 × 8 animals,
whereas intake of the high-Zn BT and SF diets was restricted in Experiment 2 (5 × 6 rats) to the level of intake of the respective
low-Zn diets. The low-Zn SF diet consistently depressed food intake and final live weights of the animals to a greater extent
than the other low-Zn diets, while intake and growth were comparable among the animals fed the high-Zn diets. The marginal
Zn deficit per se did not alter plasma triglyceride and cholesterol concentrations nor hepatic concentrations of triglyceride,
cholesterol and phospholipids. The fatty acid pattern of liver phospholipids did not indicate that chain elongation and desaturation
of fatty acids was impaired by a lack of zinc. It was concluded that dietary energy and fat intake, and fat source have a
greater effect on plasma and liver lipids than a moderate Zn deficiency. Marginally Zn-deficient diets enriched with sunflower
oil as a major energy source cause a greater growth retardation than diets rich in carbohydrates or beef tallow. |
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