“…The capacity of heart (Wittels and Bressler, 1965 ;Warshaw and Terry, 1970 ;Warshaw, 1972 ;Mersmann and Phinney, 1973 ;Aprille, 1976 ;Wolfe, Maxwell and Nelson, 1978 ;Werner et al, 1982Werner et al, , 1983a, skeletal muscle (Wolfe, Maxwell and Nelson, 1978 ;Glatz and Veerkamp, 1982 ;Carroll et al, 1983) and kidney (Wolfe, Maxwell and Nelson, 1978 ;Freund, Sedraoui and Geloso, 1984) to oxidize NEFA increases shortly after birth in rats, rabbits, pigs and calves. In contrast, it has been reported that substantial fatty acid oxidation occurs only 2 weeks after birth in dog heart (Breuer et al, 1968).…”