[Total protein and serum protein fractions in atherosclerotic animals treated with a protein hydrolysate].

The changes in the metabolism of oranism of animals with experimental atherosclerosis show not only disturbances in the lipid, but early changes in the protein metabolism as well. The author examined total protein and serum protein fractions of 61 male guinea pigs with a weight of 350 to 500 gm. There was marked disproteinemia reduction of albumin and an increase of globulins in the animals with experimental atherosclerosis (which received a diet with 0.3% of cholesterol of the food, disolved in 25% of cow butter for a period of 140 days)...