Chwalibog A, Jakobsen K, Tauson AH, Thorbek G. Heat production and substrate oxidation in rats fed at maintenance level and during fasting.
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 1998;
121:423-9. [PMID:
10048192 DOI:
10.1016/s1095-6433(98)10153-8]
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Abstract
A total of 36 Wistar rats were fed a commercial diet to a stipulated live weight of 75 g (Group A), 100 g (Group B) and 225 g (Group C). All rats were measured in energy balance experiments, in which the animals were fed near maintenance level, followed by a period of fasting with measurements of the gas exchange. The rats in Group A, B and C were fasted for 2, 3 and 4 days, respectively. The minimum heat production on the last day of fasting for all groups was proportional to metabolic body weight (kg0.75) with a regression: heat production, kJ day-1 = 321 x kg0.75 (R2 = 0.994). In rats fed near maintenance level, heat production was provided by oxidation of carbohydrates in 80-85%, oxidation of protein was 10-15%, while oxidation of fat contributed less than 10%. It is suggested that in the fasting period, the contribution to the total heat production from oxidized carbohydrate and fat depended on the size of the fat depots, a large fat depot giving rise to fat oxidation. On the last day of fasting, 24, 51 and 90% of the total heat originated from fat oxidation in Group A, B and C, respectively.
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