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6574817

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-8-26
pubmed:abstractText
This study was designed to ascertain whether the overall availability of whole-body lipids and nitrogen is a limiting factor for survival in tumor-bearing mice suffering from anorexia and cachexia. Three-month-old nongrowing mice (C57BL/6J) were given s.c. transplants of a methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma. Freely fed, starved, and pair-fed animals were used. Body and lipid composition, tumor growth, and survival time were measured. Freely fed sarcoma-bearing mice died with profoundly altered body composition. This was not explained by the anorexia assessed in pair-feeding experiments. Starvation had caused a more severe depletion in body composition in both tumor-bearing and nontumor-bearing animals than the tumor alone did in freely fed tumor-bearing mice. Freely fed tumor-bearing animals had normal proportions of whole-body triglycerides, cholesterol, and polar lipids, but they lost palmitic acid quantitatively more than any other fatty acid. It is unlikely that any single fatty acid became limiting during tumor growth. The results show that the overall availability of lipids, nitrogen, and glucose precursors is not a limiting factor for survival in experimental tumor cachexia. Other factors considered to be more likely as determining factors for the death of tumor-bearing animals are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
43
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3707-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
Role of whole-body lipids and nitrogen as limiting factors for survival in tumor-bearing mice with anorexia and cachexia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't