Corrosion of Bone by Solutions Simulating Raptor Gastric Juice
Journal
Raptor Research
Volume
10
Issue
2 (Summer)
Year
1976
Pages
55-57
Section
Scientific Papers
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ABSTRACT
To determine whether falconiforms digest the bones of their prey more thoroughly than strigiforms because of greater gastric acidity in falconiforms, mouse bones were incubated in solutions simulating gastric juice from the two orders. Solutions simulating the gastric juice of falconiforms with a pH of 1.66 corroded bones more extensively than solutions simulating strigiform gastric juice with a pH of 2.35. Pepsin, at concentrations ranging from 0 to 4 mg/ml, also were slightly involved in bone corrosion at both pH's.
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