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Experiments were performed on twelve male 200-300 gm Wistar rats, housed in controlled environmental conditions (22 ± 1°C, 12 h alternate light-dark cycles, food and water
Ten Wistar rats were sleep deprived for 6 h beginning at light-onset (ZT0).
It is likely that growth inhibition is attributable to metabolic causes arising from both oxygen delivery and mitochondrial insufficiencies associated with iron deficiency [ 14 ] . The growth data for both the control and iron deficient groups are also similar to that reported for male Wistar rats fed an iron and copper deficient diet [ 15 ] , but the iron deficient rats at 52 days of age were larger than reports of 10 week old Harlan Sprague-Dawley rats fed an AIN-76 iron deficient diet [ 17 ] .
used Wistar rats, although this would be unlikely to explain the difference between their findings and ours.
However, a literature search revealed that a few strains of rats, studied primarily for investigation of hypertension and stroke, have been reported to be sitosterolemic as well [ 15 16 ] . We hypothesised that these rat strains may be mutated in either Abcg5 or Abcg8 . Tissue (and plasma) plant sterol levels in the Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rat, the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHRSP) were significantly higher than in Wistar and WKA rats fed either a regular chow diet or diets that have higher plant sterols and these were correlated with increased death, or red cell hemolysis etc. [ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ] . Dietary sterol absorption rates were increased, with a decrease in sterol excretion [ 16 ] , characteristics similar to that observed in sitosterolemic patients.
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