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L A Kelly

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PubMed1968

Modification of Lofland's colorimetric semiautomated serum triglyceride determination, assessed by an enzymatic glycerol determination.

Erroneously high values for serum triglyceride levels obtained with the semiautomated method of Lofland were found to be due to contamination of the isopropanol extracts with glucose or other carbohydrate. Treatment of the isopropanol extracts with a mixture of copper sulfate and calcium hydroxide removed the contaminating glucose. Analysis of the glucose-free extracts by either the semiautomated or manual colorimetric method gave values in good agreement with each other and with those obtained by a new specific enzymatic method. The simple modification described in this paper obviates the necessity for the more expensive automated fluorometric apparatus.

1-Propanol↗
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Transient overconsumption of novel foods by deafferentated rats: effects of novel diet composition.

We recently demonstrated that capsaicin-treated rats consume more of an unfamiliar high-fat diet than vehicle-treated controls, but only on initial exposure (Chavez et al, 1997). We hypothesized that negative feedback signals carried by capsaicin-sensitive visceral afferents are critical for the regulation of intake of novel foods, but redundant pathways take over during subsequent exposures. To examine the role of nutrient content of the novel diet, rats were systemically treated with capsaicin (n = 15) or vehicle (n = 10), and exposed to 1) a fat/olestra diet that was isocaloric with chow; 2) a readily accepted fat-free cake; and 3) pure corn oil. Each 3-h feeding trial was preceded by 24-h food deprivation. Treated rats did not overconsume familiar chow, but did consume 50% more than controls of both the fat/olestra diet and the corn oil on first exposure; this suggests that capsaicin eliminated visceral afferents that normally carry satiety signals. However, the effect with the fat/olestra mixture was due primarily to depressed intake by controls, unlike the pure fat diets; this apparent neophobic response was blunted in treated rats. Because treated rats failed to overconsume the fat-free cakes, the neural system damaged by capsaicin appears to be linked to energy or fat sensory mechanisms, and possibly to hedonic responsiveness.

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Hyperglycemic macrocytosis in electronically determined mean corpuscular volume. Use of three different automatic cell counters.

Spurious macrocytosis in electronic cell counters has been associated with hyperglycemia. The increased mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is thought to be secondary to osmotic disequilibrium between the erythrocyte and the diluent used in the automatic cell counters. Employing three different hematology cell counters, the effects of increasing concentration of glucose (400 mg per dl to 2000 mg per dl), at different temperatures and after various incubation periods were studied. In addition to macrocytosis being temperature and glucose concentration dependent, the magnitude of cell size variation also depends on the type of instrument used.

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