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THE physiological and biochemical changes which occur during early involution in the mammary gland are of great complexity ; the gland regresses from a highly active secretory tissue to one in which the metabolic activity is greatly diminished. The ribonucleic acid and total protein content1 has been reported to have decreased at two days of involution as does the activity of many enzyme systems2. Evidence is presented in this communication that marked changes occur in the acid-soluble ribonuelotides over as short a period of weaning as 12 hr.
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WANG, D. Effects of Short-term Weaning on the Acid-soluble Ribonucleotides of Rat Mammary Gland. Nature 188, 1109–1110 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881109a0
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