Bannister D W, Evans A J, Whitehead C C
Res Vet Sci. 1975 Jul;19(1):90-2.
Chicks with fatty liver and kidney syndrome (FLKS) were given oral doses of one of the following test solutions: water, glucose, maltose, starch. Plasma glucose concentration was measured during the four subsequent hours. All FLKS-affected chicks were hypoglycaemic before treatment. Although in some cases plasma glucose concentration increased slightly in the FLSK-chicks given water alone, significantly greater increases were invariably observed following the administration of carbohydrate to sick birds. Results obtained from dietary experiments in which starch was replaced by glucose in a ration causing high mortality from the syndrome revealed no beneficial effect due to the substitution. It was concluded that FLKS does not involve any major impairmant of carbohydrate digestion or absorption.
给患有脂肪肝和肾病综合征（FLKS）的雏鸡口服以下一种测试溶液：水、葡萄糖、麦芽糖、淀粉。在随后的四个小时内测量血浆葡萄糖浓度。所有受FLKS影响的雏鸡在治疗前均处于低血糖状态。虽然在某些情况下，仅给FLSK雏鸡喂水后血浆葡萄糖浓度略有增加，但给患病鸡投喂碳水化合物后，血浆葡萄糖浓度的增加总是显著更大。在一项饮食实验中，用葡萄糖替代日粮中的淀粉，该日粮会导致该综合征的高死亡率，实验结果表明这种替代没有有益效果。得出的结论是，FLKS不涉及碳水化合物消化或吸收的任何重大损害。
