Liver Fats and Glycogen of Hypophysectomized Rats on High Carbohydrate and High Fat Diets. ∗

Summary

On a high fat diet the glycogen content of the liver was originally lower than on a high carbohydrate diet, but it did not disappear so rapidly from the liver. Hypophysectomized rats had less liver fat and more body fat than controls on the same caloric intake of a given diet. They showed the same conserving action of the fat diet on glycogen. The molecular weight of the liver fatty acids of the control rats on a high carbohydrate diet was significantly lower than those of the 3 other groups.