Ethionine administration (300 or 600 mglkg daily for 5 or 11 days) produced significant reductions in submaxillary protein levels in normal mice. These reductions were not observed in these same tissues obtained from castrated mice treated with testosterone. Ethionine-induced changes in submaxillary ribonucleic acid (RNA) were also evident.
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