Abstract
In an experiment on the production of certain urinary constituents by golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) infected with Trichinella spiralis, it was found (Bernard, 1954) that during the acute stages of the disease the creatinine output falls while creatine excretion rises. The latter effect was expected; the decrease in creatinine output was not. It was also observed that sick animals were less active than uninfected hamsters in adjacent metabolism cages. Could it be lack of spontaneous activity that was completely or partially responsible for the creatinine output decrease? In order to answer this question, the spontaneous activity of infected and normal hamsters had to be measured.
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