Abstract
Summary
1. Vegetable oil administered parenterally to mice is not physiologically inert but disappears rather rapidly from the site of injection. 2. The rate of disappearance of oil appears to vary to some extent in different breeds of mice. 3. The rate of disappearance of oil in both of two different strains of mice appears to be higher in normal young adult males than in normal females of the same age. 4. In a small series of mice, castration before puberty abolished this sex differential.
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