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QUALITATIVE changes in the urinary amino-acid pattern of four adult cats (2 males, 2 females) were investigated, while feeding them a series of mixed diets of progressively decreasing protein content in order to estimate the minimum dietary protein necessary to maintain nitrogen equilibrium1.
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GREAVES, J., SCOTT, P. Urinary Amino-Acid Pattern of Cats on Diets of Varying Protein Content. Nature 187, 242 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187242a0
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