GROWTH OF THE BODY AND OF THE VARIOUS ORGANS OF YOUNG ALBINO RATS AFTER INANITION FOR VARIOUS PERIODS
| Autor: | Chester A. Stewart |
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| Rok vydání: | 1916 |
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| Zdroj: | The Biological Bulletin. 31:16-51 |
| ISSN: | 1939-8697 0006-3185 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/1536231 |
| Popis: | The more important results of the present investigation may be summarized as follows:The average daily gain in weight of the young rats refed after being held at constant body weight for short repeated periods was somewhat higher than that of the controls. This enabled the test rats to make up lost time and to overtake the controls, but not to exceed them in body weight.The average daily loss in weight did not increase in the rats on successive periods of severe fasting, involving a loss of 25 per cent. of the initial weight.The increment of body weight upon refeeding the test rats after each severe fast amounted to only about 16 per cent. of the ingested food (exclusive of water).The amount of food required daily for maintenance decreased during the first fifty days of the experiment, but after that time apparently no further diminution occurred.The growth in body weight of the rats refed after maintenance for various periods averaged for some time considerably higher than the normal for the (younger) co... |
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