Methionin/cholin-deficient Pellet Diet, bruges til at studere induktion af ikke-alkoholisk steatohepatitis i eksperimentelle modeller og dens udviklingsveje.
This diet has the same formulation as the methionine/choline deficient diet except 2 g/kg choline chloride and 3 g/kg DL-methionine is added at the expense of sucrose.
In molecular biology, wheat germ extract is used to carry out in-vitro translation experiments, as the plant embryo contains all the macromolecular components necessary for translating mRNA into amino Acids, but contains relatively low levels of its own mRNA