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There appears to be a correlation between the amount of food ingested and the degree of restoration of hepatic mass following partial hepatectomy.
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The loss in body weight of animals that eat what they please can be prevented by forced feeding, which procedure effects a more rapid and greater degree of hepatic restoration.
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The apparently greater degree of hepatic restoration on a forced feeding regimen, to a certain extent at least, is due to an accumulation of fat in the hepatic cells.
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Machella, T.E., Higgins, G.M. & Mann, F.C. Role of food intake in the restoration of the liver following partial hepatectomy in albino rats. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 7, 152–154 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02997190
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