Nutritional repletion of malnourished tumor-bearing and nontumor-bearing rats: Effects on body weight, liver, muscle, and tumor

Effects of nutritional repletion were evaluated in malnourished rats with either no tumor (NTB), small tumor burdens (TB), or large tumor burdens (TB). One hundred and four Sprague-Dawley rats were inoculated with Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and were fed regular diet (RD) for 5 days in Study A. At this time, one group was maintained on RD while the remaining rats were fed a high carbohydrate, protein-free diet (PFD). On Day 15, one PFD group was...