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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 59 No. 3 July 1956, pp. 435-442
Copyright © 1956 by American Society for Nutrition
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Indican Excretion by Rats Fed Raw Soybean Oil Meal

Raymond Borchers and Djanhanguir Mohammad-Abadi1

Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Rats fed raw soybean oil meal were found to excrete about 4 time as much indican and to grow at about three-fourths the rate of rats fed autoclaved meal. Addition of crude trypsin powder to the rations equalized the growth rate without affecting indican excretion. Addition of indole to rations markedly increased indican excretion without affecting the growth rate. The feeding of streptomycin greatly depressed indican excretion without affecting the growth rate. Each of the two conditions under study, namely indican excretion and growth inhibition, was produced independently of the other. Therefore, it is concluded that no causal relationship exists between increased indican excretion and the decreased growth rate which result from raw soybean oil meal feeding.

1 Published with the approval of the Director as Paper no. 716, Journal Series, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. Some of these data were taken from a thesis presented by Djanhanguir Mohammad-Abadi to the Graduate College, University of Nebraska, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M. S. Degree, June 13, 1955. A preliminary report was given at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition, San Francisco, April 11–15, 1955.

Manuscript received 10 December 1955.




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