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Mice bearing Acads mutation display altered postingestive but not 5-s orosensory response to dietary fat.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Feb 2004
Smith Richards Brenda K, Belton Brenda N, York Barbara, Volaufova Julia
Abstract excerpt
A previous survey of mouse inbred strains revealed a wide range in self-selected fat intake, from 26 to 83% of energy. The BALB/cByJ strain selected a lower percentage of fat intake (36%) than all other strains tested except for the CAST/Ei. BALB/cByJ mice are deficient in the short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (SCAD) enzyme due to a spontaneous mutation in Acads. We hypothesized that this deficiency would alter...
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