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Since female rats have been shown to be protected against the mortality of copper deficiency of male rats when fructose is fed, we designed a study to establish whether castration of the male rat will protect but ovariectomy of the female will exacerbate the signs of copper deficiency.
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M. Fields, C.G. Lewis, D. Scholfield, A.C. Powell, A.J. Rose, S. Reiser, J.C. Smith, Female rats are protected against the fructose induced mortality of copper deficiency. Proc. Soc. Expt. Biol. & Med.183: 145 (1986).
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Fields, M., Lewis, C.G., Beal, T., Smith, J.C., Reiser, S. (1988). Sexual Differences in Copper Deficiency. In: Hurley, L.S., Keen, C.L., Lönnerdal, B., Rucker, R.B. (eds) Trace Elements in Man and Animals 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0723-5_36
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