POSTBURN CHANGES OF NUTRITONAL STATUS AND CELLULAR IMMUNITY IN MICE FED WITH DIFFERENT PROTEIN LEVELS / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

Two dietary protein levels, the marginal level (8%) and the normal level (20%), were employed in the present experiment to test their effects on the nutritional status, cellular immunity and immunostimulating action of argin-ine in the mice inflicted with 13% BSA, full thickness burn. The postburn changes of nutritional status were influenced noticeably by the dietary protein level. When the traumatized mice were fed with the ration containing 8% protein, the number of peripheral blood ANAE+ lymphocytes fell significantly and the irnmunostimulatory action of arginine was also markedly depressed. The probable reasons were discussed.