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1 The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N. Y.
1. 17 normal and 12 castrate female rats were placed at the age of 1 year on the coarse corn diet which was ingested up to 19 months thereafter.
2. No differences were observed between the caries incidence in the normal and in the castrate rats.
3. These rats developed caries much more slowly than do weanling rats placed on the same diet.
4. After 18 months on the diet, all the surviving rats had caries.
Submitted on April 20, 1943
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