[Dietary methionine supplementation in the pregnant rat. 1. Food intake of the dam and body weight of the newborn offspring].
A decrease from 18 to 9% of the dietary casein level induces lower food intake in the gestating female rat and weight loss in the newborn rat. Addition of methionine to the diet containing 9% casein improves food intake in the last period of pregnancy. Body weight of the newborn rat is also increased and becomes identical to that of rats born from mothers fed 18% dietary casein.
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