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NUTRITIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 167-174Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423337
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hypoproteic chow; aging; stomach; NADH-diaphorase positive myenteric neurons
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In this work, two groups of Wistar rats were fed ad libitum, one with standar chow (22% protein) and the other with hypoproteic chow (8% protein), from the 210th to the 345th day of life. Compared to the animals fed with standard chow, the animals fed with hypoproteic chow exhibited hypophagia (ingestion about 30% lower), mean weight gain 4.46% lower, greater amount of retroperitoneal and peri-epididymal fat (19% on average), lower Lee index, decrease of total plasma proteins and plasma globulins and maintenance of plasma albumin. The quantitative and morphometric analysis of the NADH-diaphorase positive myenteric neurons yielded a larger number of small neurons and a smaller number of medium neurons in the animals subjected to the hypoproteic chow, demonstrating that the neuronal growth was affected by the diet. In the animals fed with hypoproteic chow, a 20% decrease in the NADH-diaphorase positive neurons of the forestomach and a 10% decrease in those of the glandular stomach were observed.
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