Attenuation of malaria infection, paralysis and lesions in the central nervous system by low protein diets in rats.

Young Wistar rats developed a fulminant infection when inoculated with the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei. Rats that died during the infection exhibited a progressive paralysis of the extremities, a rapidly decreasing body temperature and minute haemorrhages in the brain. Increasing the level of protein in the diet from 4 to 8 and 16% was accompanied by an increase in morbidity and mortality from 15 to 40 and 90% respectively on day 6 of the infection.

Cadmium accumulation and metallothionein concentrations after 4-week dietary exposure to cadmium chloride or cadmium-metallothionein in rats.

The distribution of cadmium was examined in rats fed diets containing either cadmium-metallothionein (CdMt) or cadmium chloride (CdCl2) for 4 weeks. The test diets contained 3, 10, or 30 mg Cd/kg diet (3, 10, or 30 ppm) as CdMt or 30 mg Cd/kg diet (30 ppm) as CdCl2. A second study was performed to establish the Cd content in liver and kidneys after exposure to low doses of both CdMt and CdCl2 (1.

Interaction of dietary Ca, P, Mg, Mn, Cu, Fe, Zn and Se with the accumulation and oral toxicity of cadmium in rats.

The toxicity of Cd was examined in rats fed diets containing 30 mg Cd/kg as CdCl2 for 8 wk. The Cd-containing diets were supplemented with various combinations of the minerals Ca, P, Mg, Mn, Cu, Fe, Zn and Se in order to investigate the protective effect of these mineral combinations on Cd accumulation and toxicity. The mineral combinations were chosen such that the effect of the individual components could be analysed.

Comparison of the toxicity of inorganic and liver-incorporated cadmium: a 4-wk feeding study in rats.

The toxicity of cadmium was examined in rats fed diets containing either tissue-incorporated cadmium or cadmium salt for 4 wk. The test diets contained 30 mg cadmium/kg either as cadmium chloride, or as cadmium incorporated in pigs' livers; the control group was fed a diet containing liver from a pig not treated with cadmium. Over 90% of the cadmium present in the pigs' livers was bound to metallothionein.

Chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity study of isomalt in rats and mice.

The chronic toxicity and possible carcinogenicity of the sugar replacer isomalt was studied in Wistar rats and Swiss mice. Groups of 50 animals of each sex were fed 0, 2.5, 5 or 10% isomalt in the diet for nearly 2.