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Rev. chil. nutr ; 33(3): 511-517, dic. 2006. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-451540

ABSTRACT

The effect of grouping by sex Sprague Dawley rats on protein quality evaluation of three foods was studied. Bioassays performed were dry matter digestibility (DMD), apparent and true nitrogen digestibility (AND y TND) and net protein ratio (NPR). Foods of different protein quality used were dry whole milk, texturized soybean and high fiber breakfast cereal obtained from the local market. Casein was used as control. An experimental block design where the blocks were the groups of rats classified as mixed, female and male was used. Data of consumed diet, total feces and weight gain of each rat was recorded every third day. It was concluded that with the exception of the high fiber breakfast cereal, which showed significant differences between males and females in the true nitrogen digestibility parameter, in general grouping by sex did not have a significant effect on dry matter, AND, TND and NPR responses. These results suggest the possibility of using rats from either sex in these protein quality evaluation tests.


La influencia del agrupamiento por sexo de las ratas Sprague Dawley fue evaluada al determinar la calidad proteica en tres alimentos. Los bioensayos realizados fueron digestibilidad de materia seca (DMsec), digestibilidad de nitrógeno aparente y verdadera (DNap y DNver) y razón neta de proteína (NPR). Las muestras empleadas fueron alimentos de distinta calidad proteica: leche en polvo, soya texturizada y cereal, obtenidas del comercio local y caseína como control. Se utilizó un diseño experimental por grupos: mixto, hembras y machos. Se colectaron datos cada tercer día: alimento consumido, el total de heces y el incremento en peso de cada individuo. Se concluye de manera general, que el agrupamiento por sexo de la rata no tiene efecto significativo sobre la respuesta de estos bioensayos evaluados en los alimentos probados, a excepción del cereal que presentó diferencias significativas entre machos y hembras en el parámetro de DNver, sugiriendo que es factible utilizar ratas de diferente sexo en estas evaluaciones de calidad proteica.


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Animals , Rats , Biological Assay , Digestion/physiology , Dietary Proteins/metabolism , Nutritive Value , Dietary Proteins/analysis , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Reference Values , Sex Factors , Data Interpretation, Statistical
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