ABSTRACT
Fecal nitrogen excretion in different nutritional conditions were studied in 32 adult Wistar rats, casually distributed in four groups: group A (12), with normal control rats; group B (6), with subcutaneous impalnt of Walker-256 carcinosarcoma, at the beginning of the experiment; group C (8), with tumor implant eight days before the experiment beginning; group D (6), with standard skin wound in 15th day. The animals were fed with normoproteic diet (25% casein content). Nitrogen ingestion and urinary and fecal excretion were daily measured. Evaluation selected parameters were: nitrogen ingestion and urinary, fecal and total excretion; nitrogen fecal excretion/ingestion, nitrogen fecal excretion/urinary excretion and nitrogen fecal excretion/total excretion ratios; nitrogen urinary excretion/ingestion and nitrogen urinary excretion/total excretion ratios. Adequate statistical analysis was done with p < 0.05 critical limit value. It was observed that in normal animals nitrogen fecal excretion was equal to 5.7% ingestion value, 12.0% urinary excretion and 10.8% total excretion. In presence of malignant tumor, nitrogen fecal excretion was equal to 79% of normal animals value. In rats with skin wound in cicatrization nitrogen fecal excretion was 70.5% of normal animals value.
