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Growth of boys in body weight and calcium content

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Organism	Human Homo sapiens
Reference	HH Mitchell et al., The chemical composition of the adult human body and its bearing on the biochemistry of growth. May 1, 1945 The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 158, 625-637. p.634 table 4
Primary Source	30. Meredith, H. V., Am. J. Phys. Anthrop., 28, 1 (1941). AND 33. Bayley, N., and Davis, F. C., Biometrika, 27, 26 (1935). AND 34. Brody, S., Missouri Agr. Exp. Sta., Res. Bull. 104 (1927).
Comments	"The estimated accretions of calcium per day in the body of the growing male child listed in Table IV for boys of different ages from birth to 20 years are quite similar in absolute magnitude to the estimates of Shohl (9) obtained by an analogous method."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	109577