Relationship between liver weight and body weight in normal monkeys and dogs
Areekul, S.
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 4(3): 442-443
1973
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-1562 PMID: 4203493 Document Number: 3237
In many research and experimental investigations, sometimes it is essential to know the weight of some internal organs in vivo of the experimental animals. Thus, there is a need for a formula that correlates the weight of internal organs with parameters that could be easily determined. The present paper described a method for estimating the weight of the liver from the body weight in normal monkeys and dogs. The liver can be described as the function of 0.33 and 0.92 power of the body weight in normal monkeys and dogs respectively. These findings could therefore be used to estimate the weights of the liver in vivo from the known body weights of the normal monkeys and dogs without sacrificing the animals.
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