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Science 25 September 1964:
Vol. 145. no. 3639, pp. 1448 - 1449
DOI: 10.1126/science.145.3639.1448
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Bee Venom Tolerance in White Mice in Relation to Diet

Allen W. Benton 1, Roger A. Morse 1, and Albert F. Gunnison 1

1 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

In white mice the consumption of a high protein diet either just before, or over a period of 3 days prior to, the injection of venom from the honey bee Apis mellifera L. markedly increases the number of deaths. Conversely, a period of starvation or a nonprotein diet fed to white mice for 3 days prior to the injection of bee venom significantly reduces the number of deaths.

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