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maintenance, may be seen from the chart, Fig. 13. 

 Rat 1900. 



Investigation of this type into the biochemical de- 

 portment of the protein cleavage products will un- 

 doubtedly lead ultimately to the assignment of more 

 or less specific functions to the various amino acids, 

 and hence will indirectly indicate the relative efficiency 

 of this or that protein in bringing about a desired 

 result in nutrition. 



REFERENCES TO LITERATURE 



Mendel: Nutrition and Growth: Journal of the American 

 Medical Association. 1915, 64, p. 1539. 



Osborne and Mendel: Journal Biological Chemistry. 1914, 

 17, p. 325. 



Willcock and Hopkins: Journal of Physiology. 1906, 35, p. 88. 



