Changes in Body Weight of Normal and Castrated Rats by Different Doses of Testosterone Propionate.
- 1 March 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 100 (3) , 520-522
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-100-24682
Abstract
Administra-tion of testosterone propionate above physiological levels inhibits body weight gain of normal and castrated young adult rats. Inhibition in the normal rat appears in doses above 25 ug/day and in castrated rats at above 100 ug/day. In the castrated rat inhibition is preceded by increase in rate of body weight gain. Food consumption of both normal and castrated rats varied with changes in body weight.Keywords
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