title: [Animal experimental studies on liver morphology after intravenous administration of a fat emulsion].
abstract: In short infusion series run over a 5day period, a fat emulsion on the basis of soya oil with egg lecithin as emulsifier, has been applied to rabbits by the intravenous route in a dosage of 2 and 4 g/kg body-weight/day. The results changes to the liver morphology have been analysed histologically by light-microscope in a systematic manner; using standard intervals of one to fifteen weeks. The most conspicuous phenomenon of the changed liver morphology is a fatty degeneration of the Kupffer's cells of the liver, whose different degree of severity was determined semiquantitatively by determination of the so-called index of fatty degeneration. The loading of the reticulo-endothelial system (RES) of the liver is very heavy with the higher dose; it is lower with a dose of 2 g fat/kg body-weight. The histological changes recede only slowly. A simultaneous parenteral administration of carbohydrates did not result in any provable inferior loading of the RES.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004655:Emulsions; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000139:chemically induced; D005260:Female; D007263:Infusions, Parenteral; D007728:Kupffer Cells / Q000187:drug effects; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009821:Oils / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011817:Rabbits; D013025:Glycine max
chemical_list: D004655:Emulsions; D009821:Oils
vernacular_title: Tierexperimentelle Untersuchungen der Lebermorphologie nach intravenöser Zufuhr einer Fettemulsion.