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Effect of Infantile Treadmill Experience on Body-weight and Resistance to Exhaustion in the Rat

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AN earlier experiment reported an inverse relationship between the age of rats and their exhaustion time on a slowly and continuously revolving wheel1. The experiments reported here show the effect of early treadmill experience on later resistance to exhaustion and a hitherto-unnoticed weight-gain effect.

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    ROBERT A. LEVITT & WILSE B. WEBB

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LEVITT, R., WEBB, W. Effect of Infantile Treadmill Experience on Body-weight and Resistance to Exhaustion in the Rat. Nature 208, 1128–1129 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081128a0

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