Diverticulitis: a new surgical remedy.
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In agreement with the findings of others, heart carnitine levels of male, weanling Sprague-Dawley rats fed nutritionally adequate liquid diets with 35% of calories as ethanol for 3 weeks were not different from control or pair-fed rats (Experiment 1). When ethanol was given as 30% of energy in combination with a diet deficient in methionine and choline, and the feeding period was extended to 5 weeks, heart carnitine levels were significantly affected (Experiment 2). Carnitine levels in whole heart homogenates of the methionine and choline deficient chronic ethanol-fed group were 2.14 +/- 0.74 mumoles per g dry wt. significantly lower (p less than 0.05) than deficient controls, 3.08 +/- 0.85 mumoles per g dry wt. We conclude that a methionine and choline deficient diet exacerbates the effects of alcohol on methyl-group metabolism so as to produce decrements in heart carnitine not seen when alcohol is given with an adequate diet.