Why does a Difference in Growth Rate between Rats of the Wistar and Sprague Dawley Strains Occur when a Niacin-Free and Tryptophan-Limiting Diet is Fed?

Abstract

In the course of our experiments on tryptophan (Trp)-NAD metabolism, we have found that the rats of the Sprague-Dawley (SD) strain showed good growth as compared to those of the Wistar strain (Shibata et al., 1980) when they were fed a niacin-free diet containing 8.0 % amino acid mixture simulating rice protein supplemented with some limiting amino acid except for Trp (Yo-shida, 1971). We also found that the total amounts of Trp metabolites in liver, kidneys and urine were higher in the SD strain than in the Wistar strain (Shibata et al., 1982). These findings prompted us to compare enzyme activities involved in the Trp-NAD pathway in the two strains of rats fed a normal diet.KeywordsQuinolinic AcidAnthranilic AcidAmino Acid MixtureWistar StrainLimit Amino AcidThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.