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A REDUCTION in ruminal deamination should increase the availability of amino-acids in the host, and should lead to an increase in the rate of synthesis of wool fibre. This report is of a pilot study designed to measure the gross effects of dietary supplements of chlortetracycline on the rate of growth of the wool of sheep given rations which differed appreciably in protein concentration.
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HILL, M., WYTHES, J. Effect of Dietary Chlortetracycline on the Rate of Growth of Wool in Sheep. Nature 221, 1057 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211057a0
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