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Science 19 June 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3364, pp. 1673 - 1674
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3364.1673
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Growth of Body Weight and Manipulation of Food Motivation

MICHAEL KAPLAN 1, SAM L. CAMPBELL 1, LINDA JOHNSON 1, ANDROULLA PAPAMICHAEL 1, RICHARD SPARER 1, and MARIAN WEINBAUM 1

1 Experimental Psychology Laboratory, Creedmoor Institute for Psychobiologic Studies, Queens Village, New York

Consideration was given to the possible use of individual growth curves to estimate ad libitum-feeding weights as part of technique for producing specified degrees of food deprivation. In heterozygous animals, this possibility was found to be feasible but limited by the occurrence of discontinuous growth functions.

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