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Nitrogen Balance Experiments: some Theoretical Considerations

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Miller and Payne1 have raised anew the problem of how to explain net protein utilizations (NPU) greater than 100 per cent. They offer a conventional answer, that the metabolic or endogenous loss of nitrogen can be reduced in certain cases and that this results in calculated efficiencies greater than 100 per cent. The examples cited of such high utilizations are of two types where I, Bal, and M are nitrogen intake, nitrogen balance, and endogenous urinary and faecal nitrogen excretion, respectively, and a, b and c are constants.

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NJAA, L. Nitrogen Balance Experiments: some Theoretical Considerations. Nature 211, 1413–1414 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111413a0

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