The Effect of Protein Density of Food on Food Intake and Nutritional Status of Tumor-Bearing Rats
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
8 p.
Publication Date
4-1997
Publisher
Wiley
Source Publication
Research in Nursing and Health
Source ISSN
0160-6891
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199704)20:2<131::AID-NUR5>3.0.CO;2-L; Shelves: RT1 .R48x Raynor Memorial Periodicals
Abstract
Current clinical practice emphasizes increasing calorie and protein intake to abate the nutritional decline that frequently occurs in cancer patients. Using an animal model of tumor-induced anorexia, we found that increasing the protein density of food resulted in a net increase in protein intake, but a decrease in the food intake of both healthy and tumor-bearing animals. The increased protein intake did not affect the nutritional status of tumor-bearing animals as indicated by body weight or serum levels of total protein, insulin, or insulin-like growth factor 1. These data suggest that factors regulating feeding responses to increased protein density of food are intact in hypophagic tumor-bearing rats, and that increased protein intake does not influence plasma levels of hormones requisite for protein synthesis. These data may partially explain why interventions to improve the nutritional intake of cancer patients have marginal effects on body weight, accrual of lean body mass, or synthesis of visceral proteins. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Res Nurs Health 20: 131–138, 1997
Recommended Citation
McCarthy, Donna O.; Lo, Chyi; Nguyen, Huong; and Ney, Denise M., "The Effect of Protein Density of Food on Food Intake and Nutritional Status of Tumor-Bearing Rats" (1997). College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications. 199.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/nursing_fac/199
Comments
Research in Nursing and Health, Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 1997): 131-138. DOI.
Donna McCarthy was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Madison at the time of publication.