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AI InsightConclusion: Dried yogurt and quinoa supplementation significantly enhanced body and brain weights in rat pups compared to 2% and 12% protein diets, particularly reversing the deficits observed in protein restricted cohorts.
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Abstract
Aims: This study focuses on experimental studies conducted on rats to explain the effects of malnutrition and poor nutrition, dry yogurt diet, and quinoa diet on skull measurements. Methods: Newborn rat pups were divided as a 2% protein diet, a 12% protein diet, a 24% protein diet, a dry yogurt diet, and a quinoa diet. The diets were isocaloric and were administered from day 22 prenatal, the weaning period, until 90 days of age. Skull measurements were taken from lateral and anterior skull X-rays. Results: In the 22nd day of the 2% protein diet fed offspring rats, the average brain weight was 1.1550±0.094 and the average brain weight was 1.470±0.080 on the 90th day, p=0.001. The average body weight of the 22nd day of the 2% protein diet-fed baby rats was 19.20±3.238 and the average body weight was 95.461±6.233 on the 90th day. p=0.001. Significant changes in cranial structure were observed in 90-day-old rats fed diets containing 24%, 12%, and 2% protein, as well as dry yogurt and quinoa. Bone measurements were significantly shorter in low-protein diets. Skull length, facial length, nasal bone length, and Orbit length optic canal suture results in the 2% and 24% protein modeling were: 2.66±0.03-4.07±0.1, p<0.0001. 1.74±0.1-2.72±0.0, p<0.0001. 0.82±0.0-1.45±0.1, p<0.0001, and 0.11±0.0-0.13±0.1, p<0.0001, respectively. Conclusion: Dried yogurt and quinoa supplementation significantly enhanced body and brain weights in rat pups compared to 2% and 12% protein diets, particularly reversing the deficits observed in protein restricted cohorts.