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Sex-linked Factor influencing the Catabolism of Serum γG-Globulins and Transferrins in the Mouse

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SEVERAL workers1–3 have investigated the catabolism of γG-globulins in the normal mouse, whereas catabolism of transferrins has received comparatively little attention4. Most workers studying γG-globulin catabolism have observed occasionally some difference between the mean half-life values of batches of male and female mice. These differences are rarely statistically very significant, for the individual biological variation in half-life, even within an inbred group of mice of the same sex, is high.

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  1. Department of Experimental Pathology, King's College Hospital Medical School, Denmark Hill, London

    J. WATKINS, D. E. H. TEE, J. J. FINN & P. M. JOHNSON

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WATKINS, J., TEE, D., FINN, J. et al. Sex-linked Factor influencing the Catabolism of Serum γG-Globulins and Transferrins in the Mouse. Nature 219, 295–296 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219295a0

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