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MOURIQUAND and Schoen have shown1 that gravid female guinea pigs on a scorbutic diet develop scurvy only very slightly or not at all. They considered that the fœtus was capable of synthesising vitamin C, and thus protected the mother from incurring the disease. Afterwards, Rohmer, Sanders and Bezssonoff2 and Rohmer, Bezssonoff and Stoerr3 showed that the young human infant, up to the age of five months, is capable of synthesising vitamin C.
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G. Mouriquand and J. Schoen, C. R. Soc. Biol., 187, 203; 1933.
P. Rohmer, U. Sanders, and N. Bezssonoff, NATURE, 134, 142, July 28, 1934.
P. Rohmer, N. Bezssonoff, and E. Stoerr, Bull de l'Acad. de Med., 871, June 1934.
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BOURNE, G. Synthesis of Vitamin C by Luteal Tissue. Nature 135, 148–149 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135148b0
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