Abstract
Summary
It would appear that in these experiments the intra-peritoneal injection of crude peanut oil extracts of the brown fat of the woodchuck and the thirteen-lined ground squirrel produced a lowering of the heat production of the white rat either at once or after 1 or 2 days (as measured by the oxygen consumption). Such effects, with one exception, were not produced by the injection of peanut oil alone.
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