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The Quantitative Nutrient-Response Relationship

Department of Biochemistry School of Medicine and Dentistry Oral Roberts University Tulsa, OK 74171

A quantitative mathematical model for the description of nutrientresponse relationships can be derived by the application of the concepts of a) specific nutrient-macromolecular interaction, b) response proportional to the extent of this interaction, c) law of mass action and d) saturation kinetics. This model can be used to produce the four-parameter mathematical model for physiological responses. The possible uses of the model are discussed, an idealized example is given, and the model is applied to the interpretation and description of a growth experiment in which male, weanling Sprague-Dawley rats are fed diets varying in concentration of an amino acid mixture.

KEY WORDS: • mathematical model • nutrient-response relationship

Manuscript received 23 September 1981.

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