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PRELIMINARY experiments have suggested that feeding of linseed oil fatty acids depressed the proportion of arachidonic acid in liver and cerebella of chickens1. The following experiment was conducted to determine the validity of the original observation.
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MACHLIN, L. Effect of Dietary Linolenate on the Proportion of Linoleate and Arachidonite in Liver Fat. Nature 194, 868–869 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194868a0
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