Abstract
Summary
Triolein I131 was administered to castrate and intact female beagles maintained on 2 levels of dietary fat. Castrate bitches were found to have a greater maximum percentage of administered radioactivity in circulation than intact females. Curves representing blood radioactivity plotted against time were similar after castration to those of some conditions in the human in which deranged lipid metabolism is implicated. Curves produced under conditions of low availability of dietary fat become erratic and presented only slightly different mean peak values when intact and castrate animals were compared.
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