Effects of Nutrition on the Composition of Tooth Lipids and Fatty Acids in Rats: I. The Effect of Dietary Carbohydrate on Fatty Acid Composition of Rat Teeth

Authors :: Syed Q. Alam
Robert S. Harris
Source :: Journal of Dental Research. 51:1474-1477
Publication Year :: 1972
Publisher :: SAGE Publications, 1972.
Abstract: The fatty acid composition of rat molars and incisors was essentially the same whether starch or sucrose was the dietary carbohydrate. A slight increase in palmitic acid and decrease in unsaturated fatty acids was noted in the rats fed starch as compared with those fed sucrose.

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