THE INFLUENCE OF THE QUANTITY OF NUTRITION UPON THE GROWTH OF THE SUCKLING MOUSE

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19 May 1930

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology

Vol. 13 (5) , 529-545
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.13.5.529

Abstract

Under usual conditions, the growth of the suckling mouse is limited by the quantity of mother's milk available. As this limitation is removed the growth curve approaches a parabola, which is abruptly interrupted at the end of the second week, when the natural process of weaning begins.

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