Subject Index 



375 



fixed size, 263 



food-limited, 298 



freely growing, 281 



individuals of, 103 



limited size, 280 



methods for estimating natural, 305 



natural, 190, 262, 300, 306 



physiologic adaptation, 261 



reproductive function, 306 



resident, 56 



self-limited, 298 



size, 240 



uniforml}' distributed, 58 

 Population density, 226, 262, 287, 305 



adrenocortical and reproductive re- 

 sponses, 269 



effect on adrenocortical function, 281 



endocrine responses, 263 



index of relative, 305 



inflammation, 276 



resistance to infection, 276 



schematic summary, 326, 327 

 Potassium, 204 



excretion, 201 



levels, 204 



level of body, 202 



secretion of aldosterone, 204 

 Potto, 195 



Preconstellation phase, 58 

 Pregneninolone, 210 

 Preputial development 



adrenal androgens, 292 



stimulating, 292 



stimulation, 212 

 Probability 



formulas, 144 

 Pi(A), 144 

 PiW, 144 



tenninating trips, 12 



vacillating at the termination of trips, 18 

 Proestrus, 239 

 Psychology 



classical, 184, 185 



Rabbit, 193, 323 



adrenalectomized, 236 

 corticosterone, 236 

 domestic, 236 

 embryo 



resorption, 239 



parasitism, 322 



release of radioiodine, 233 



thyroid, 232 



thyroid activity, 235 



thyroidectomy, 239 



thyrotoxicosis, 235 



wild, 235, 236 

 Radial distance, 623 

 Radioiodine 



release in domestic rabbits, 236 



release in wild rabbits, 236 



uptake, 232 

 Rat (see also Norway rat, Rattus), 138, 

 159, 182, 194, 196, 212, 218, 309 



ACTH and gonadotropin relationship, 

 260 



adrenals, 201, 206 



adrenal atrophy, 237 



adrenal cortex, 200 



adrenalectomized, 253 



adrenalectomized laboratory, 201 



adrenal hypertrophy, 237 



adrenal weight, 302 



adrenocortical secretion, 222 



androgen, 221 



anestrus, 220 



albino Osborne-Mendel strain, 181 



blood level of TSH, 237 



chorionic gonadotropins, 220 



corticosterone, 236 



domesticated albino strain, 171 



domesticated Norway, 8 



effect of temperature changes on, 274 



gonadectomized, 219 



gonadotropins, 212, 309 



growth, 210 



harderian glands, 240 



house, 212 



hypertrophy of medulla, 227 



hypophysectomized, 216, 233, 254 



hypothalamic-hypophyseal-thyroidal re- 

 lationships, 233 



hypothyroid, 234, 239 



inanition, 272 



in a strong environment, 303 



inbred, 274 



infant, 210 



length of estrous cycle, 238 



method of inducing an inflammatory 

 response, 277 



