Minimum Protein Requirement of the Adult Rat for 28-Day Periods of Maintenance of Body Weight
- 1 December 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 45 (4) , 609-620
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/45.4.609
Abstract
The minimum protein requirement in the adult rat for maintenance of body weight during 28-day periods was determined with a rice-beans-casein diet that had been employed to measure the minimum requirement for growth, reproduction and lactation. The following results were obtained:Keywords
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