The effects of exercise and dietary protein level on amounts of nucleic acids and total nitrogen in livers, gastrocnamius muscles, skin samples and on serum albumin-globulin ratios or young adult rats were examined. The rats in one replicate bad been exercised intermittently prior to this test while those in two other replicates had no previous exercise. It was round that exercise imposed during this test, and the lowest protein diet both resulted in reduced serum albumin-globulin ratios. Rats exercised in this test, if exercised previously, bad greatly increased DNA, RNA, and total nitrogen in their gastrocnamius muscles. This increase did not occur in rats exercised only in this test. In addition, it was found that liver DNA was increased in rats that bad previously undergone intermittent exercise. Liver nitrogen decreased as dietary protein level decreased. The amounts of' RNA and nitrogen per unit DNA in skin samples decreased following prolonged intermittent exercise, but were not affected by dietary protein level.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115067 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Christensen, David. A. |
| Contributors | Crampton, E. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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