Standard Warburg manometric technics have been used to make extended determinations of the oxygen uptake of rat and rabbit incisor pulp. Rat dental pulp showed signs of exhaustion after six hours, and rabbit dental pulp maintained a steady rate of oxygen uptake for ten hours.
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