Abstract
Summary
Castrated female rats, with surgical ablation of 95% of the pancreas and maintained under forced feeding were injected with stilbestrol.
In some of these animals, immediately after stilbestrol administration, a transitory stage lasting for about one month, with an increase of the blood sugar level and glycosuria values was olbserved, followed by a permanent protective action in all the stilbestrol treated rats with normal values in blood sugar and glycosuria, in contrast with the increase of these values observed in non injected controls.
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