Abstract
It is evident from past experience that tooth extraction increases stress in animals. The author investigated the change in the amount of adrenal corticosterone at the time of extraction and also how dietary protein is utilized herein.
Results are as follows:
1. Weight of adrenal glands of the low protein diet rat group is considerably less than that of normal.
2. Low protein cage fed diet group take longer time to recover from increased adrenal corticosterone than a normal group.
3. Weight of adrenal glands of the low protein diet group increased under extraction stress whereas no effect was observed in the case of a normal protein group.
4. Low protein diet group took longer to recover from abnormal amount of adrenal corticosterone resulting from extraction stress.
