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Invited review: Resource inputs and land, water and carbon footprints from the production of edible protein of animal origin
Gerhard Flachowsky
Institute of Animal Nutrition, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Bundesallee 37, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Ulrich Meyer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Animal Nutrition, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Bundesallee 37, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Karl-Heinz Südekum
Institute of Animal Science, University of Bonn, Endenicher Allee 15, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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In vivo monitoring of hepatic glycolipid distribution of n-6 ∕ n-3 in jugular-vein-cannulated rats as a nutritional research model for monogastric animal
Sang-O. Park and Victor A. Zammit
Arch. Anim. Breed., 62, 437–446, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-62-437-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-62-437-2019, 2019
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These results demonstrate that a dietary n-6/n-3 fatty acid ratio of 4:1 could significantly decrease harmful lipid levels in the blood by controlling the mechanism of metabolic distribution via blood from triglyceride and phospholipid newly synthesized in the liver of cannulated rat.
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