Abstract
Summary
The applicability of a graphical presentation of skeletal weight data as a function of body weight on log-log graph paper to the Rochester strain of rat and to individual components of the skeleton has been demonstrated. It has also been shown that the function relating the two variables is the same as for a previously described colony. Further, the variations demonstrated among the components of the skeleton preclude the use of any one bone as quantitatively representative of the skeleton as a whole. However, an equation for comparing the growth rates of the different bones, which require only the weights at two ages, has been proposed.
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