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IT has previously been reported that female rats develop lipaemia and fatty livers during treatment with cortisone1, and, more recently, the pathogenesis of this has been traced to a markedly enhanced mobilization of fatty acids from adipose tissue2. The mechanism thus seems quite different from that accounting for the fat accumulation in the livers of female, but not of male, rats during ethionine administration3, and it is not reversed or prevented by measures which are effective during ethionine treatment2. Nevertheless, it is important to clarify whether the effect could also be observed in male rats.
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HILL, R., RUDÈ, F. Cortisone-induced Lipaemia and Hepatic Steatosis in the Male Rat. Nature 210, 733 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210733a0
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