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Two organic compounds, diethylstilboestrol a synthetic oestrogen substitute, and cyproheptadine which acts as an appetite stimulant in some mammals, were added separately at 3 different concentrations to diets fed to plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), and their effect on growth examined. Over a 10 week period, low orally-administered diethylstilboestrol (600 μg/kg moist diet) gave rise to increased weight gain, food consumption and food conversion. Higher dietary concentrations of diethylstilboestrol (up to 2400 μg/kg diet) were without effect on these parameters. Cyproheptadine did not stimulate appetite, weight gain or food conversion at any of the levels tested.
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Cowey, C.B., Pope, J.A., Adron, J.W. et al. Studies on the nutrition of marine flatfish. The effect of oral administration of diethylstilboestrol and cyproheptadine on the growth of Pleuronectes platessa . Marine Biology 19, 1–6 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355413
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