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Addition of ox bile and bile salts to a purified diet produced differential effects on growth in rats. Deoxycholate produced growth depression (P<0.001) at all concentrations. Growth was reduced further by 1% urea or 100 mg/kg of chlortetracycline. Addition of urea with chlortetracycline tended to abolish growth depression produced by either alone.
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