Effect of undernutrition on succinate dehydrogenase and acetylcholinesterase in developing rat brain.

摘要: Pups (5 days old) were undernourished by separating them for 14 hr daily from their mothers 7, 10, 13, 16 and 20 days. The rats showed significant decrease in body brain weight, protein nucleic acid contents at all stages of observation as compared to controls. activities SDH AChE enzymes decreased significantly after 10 onwards rat brain. However, maximum protein, enzyme was observed during suckling-weaning-transition (20-21 days). Such alterations may be correlated with the reduced oxidative neurotransmission function developing