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THERE have been many attempts to determine the magnitude of protein reserves or endogenous nitrogen excretion in protein-depleted or starved animals1–5. Previous results, however, have not clearly stated the fractional rate of catabolism of body protein itself, either for a whole body or for an individual organ or tissue. Borsook6,7 presented the metabolic concept as a development of Martin and Robison's concept2 that the cytoplasmic proteins constituting reserve proteins are broken down at a rate depending on their mass, or in a first-order reaction.
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YAMAGUCHI, M., KANDATSU, M. Catabolic Rate of Body Protein in Rat during the Earlier Stages of Protein Depletion. Nature 217, 668–669 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217668b0
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