Low and marginal copper intake by postweanling rats: Effects on copper status and resistance to carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity

Long-term marginal copper intake by rats

Long-term marginal copper intake by rats: Effects on copper enzyme activities and responses to dimethylhydrazine

✍ Robert A. DiSilvestro; Robert E.C. Wildman; Thunder Jalili; Denis M. Medeiros; C 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 28 KB

Studies of marginal copper intake by rats generally use feeding periods of 6 weeks or less. Longer periods may abolish adverse effects due to adaptive mechanisms conserving copper. In the present study, rats were fed either adequate or marginal copper (8 or 2 mg copper/kg diet) for 6 months. Rats co