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Studies in milk secretion: II. The relation of the glands of internal secretion to milk production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. Hammond
Affiliation:
(School of Agriculture, Cambridge.)
J. C. Hawk
Affiliation:
(School of Agriculture, Cambridge.)

Extract

It is now generally recognized that the glands of internal secretion play an important part in regulating metabolism and so controlling the nutrition of the animal. Hatui found that castration was followed by a putting on of fat except in those cases in which the pituitary underwent a compensatory hypertrophy, when the animal remained normal in weight.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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Page 148 note 2 Therapeutic Gazette, October, 1911.

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Page 148 note 4 Messrs Burroughs and Wellcome's extract of the posterior lobe was used in all these experiments.

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