Association of maximum voluntary dietary intake of freeze-dried garlic with Heinz body anemia in horses.

Objective: To characterize hematologic and clinical consequences of chronic dietary consumption of freeze-dried garlic at maximum voluntary intake in horses.

Animals: 4 healthy sex- and age-matched horses.

Procedure: An initial garlic dose (0.

Nervonic acid is transferred from the maternal diet to milk and tissues of suckling rat pups.

Three experiments were designed to investigate the metabolism of dietary nervonic acid (24:1n-9, NA) during reproduction in the rat. The first experiment determined the effect of early development on the sphingomyelin (SM) composition of rat heart and liver tissues. Rats were fed a standard chow diet and the SM fatty acid composition of the hearts and livers were analyzed of 18-20 day old fetuses, 14 day old sucklings and adult rats.