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FEMORAL GROWTH AFTER OCCLUSION OF THE PRINCIPAL NUTRIENT CANAL IN DAY-OLD RABBITS

M. Brookes 1

1 The Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool

1. The principal nutrient canal of the femur in day-old rabbits was occluded and subsequent femoral growth observed.

2. An initial shortening is followed by equalisation and a final absolute shortening of the order of 3 per cent in occluded femora as compared with controls.

3. It is emphasised that the medullary arterial system, fed by principal nutrient, metaphysial and epiphysial arteries, is the mechanism for the delivery of arterial blood to long bones, and that the arteries of bone extremities are of overwhelming importance in the nutrition of the long bone as a whole.
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