The Effect of Deer Horn on the Liver and other Organs of Cholesterol Administered Rabbits

녹용(鹿茸)이 Cholesterol 투여가토(投與家兎)의 간조직(肝組織) 및 각장기(各臟器)에 미치는 영향(影響)(제 5 편)(第 5 編)

The oral admistration of deer horn extract was proved to cause a considerable amelioration to the impairment of hepatic oxidative phosphorylation and to the decrease of ATP content in liver tissue induced by cholesterol ingestion. Deer horn extract was shown to accelerate considerably incorporation of $acetate-1-C^{14}$ into cholesterol in liver tissue and it tends to restore a decrease of GOT activity of liver tissue, caused by cholesterol administration. Histological examination showed that deer horn extract had a remakable preventive effect aginst fatty infiltration of organgs such as liver, heart, spleen, and adrenal gland of cholesterol given rabbits.