LONG-TERM DOG FEEDING EXPERIMENT ON IRRADIATED CHICKEN, BEEF AND JAM. Progress Report No. 4-A for the Period September 15, 1958 to March 1, 1959

Technical Report · Sat Oct 31 04:00:00 EST 1959

OSTI ID:4254829

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Diets containing 35% of solids of boned chickens ground beef, and pineapple jam, irradiated at 0, 2.79, and 5.58 megarads, were fed to Beagles for sixty weeks. All diets continued to be acceptable to the dogs, and 300 grams of food per day gave adequate nourishment but controlled obesity. Hematologic values showed a normal blood picture. Analysis of the urine showed a glycosuria for all of the dogs on the pineapple jam diet and a slight glycosuria in the male dogs on the beef control diets females on X-level beef diet, and in one male and one female on the 2X-level beef diet. Animals on the three levels of boned chieken developed no glycosuria. The ring test for albumin on the urines remains negative for all animals. During the first sixty weeks of feeding, no other effects were noted in any of the dogs. (auth)

• Research Organization: Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville. School of Medicine
• NSA Number: NSA-13-013137
• OSTI ID: 4254829
• Report Number(s): NP-7477
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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