THE RELATION OF THE LIVER TO FAT METABOLISM I. EFFECT OF LIVER LACK ON FAT COMBUSTION AND THE RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT.

Drury , D. R.; McMaster , Philip D.

doi:10.1084/jem.49.5.765

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THE RELATION OF THE LIVER TO FAT METABOLISM : I. EFFECT OF LIVER LACK ON FAT COMBUSTION AND THE RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT.

D. R. Drury,

D. R. Drury

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D. R. Drury

From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Philip D. McMaster

From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Received: February 27 1929

Online ISSN: 1540-9538

Print ISSN: 0022-1007

Copyright, 1929, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

1929

J Exp Med (1929) 49 (5): 765–778.

https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.49.5.765

Fat combustion is carried on adequately in rabbits deprived of the liver or brought into a condition of extreme liver insufficiency. Even 24 hours after hepatectomy fat combustion goes on as well as in the normal animal. Evidently the liver plays no essential part in the breaking down of fat.

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