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Dietary Casein and Soybean Protein Affect the Concentrations of Serum Cholesterol, Triglyceride and Free Amino Acids in Rats

College of Agriculture, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama City, 700 Japan

This work was undertaken to investigate the concentrations of free amino acids in blood after food was withheld from growing, male Wistar rats fed cholesterol-free, low fat (1 g corn oil/100 g) diets with casein or soybean protein for 2 wk. A diet containing 22.5 or 23.5 g/100 g of soybean protein was hypocholesterolemic compared with a diet containing 20.0 g casein/100 g diet. A comparison of serum amino acids in soybean protein-fed vs. casein-fed rats showed that, whereas concentrations of many amino acids were lower in the soybean protein-fed rats compared with the casein-fed groups, glycine was the only amino acid having a higher concentration. Further, alanine was significantly lower in the soybean protein-fed rats compared with the casein-fed rats, and the protein-induced differences in glycine and alanine concentrations of unfed rats were reproducible. When diets containing 15.0% casein or 30.0% soybean protein, a casein diet supplemented with glycine and a soybean protein diet supplemented with methionine were compared, the changes in serum glycine and alanine correlated with the changes in serum cholesterol. Concentrations of several amino acids, particularly valine, leucine and tyrosine, also changed when serum cholesterol concentrations varied, but these effects could not be explained by our experiments. The results suggest that a change in serum concentration of glycine and alanine of unfed rats may be related to the change in serum cholesterol concentration.

KEY WORDS: • casein • soybean protein • rats • serum amino acids • cholesterol

¹ Current address: Kibi International University, Takahashi City, Okayama-ken, 716 Japan.

² Current address: Dong-A University, Pusan, Korea.

Manuscript received 18 September 1991. Revision accepted 23 June 1992.

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