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IN a preliminary communication1 a short description and two figures were given of a peculiar deficiency disease, involving depigmentation and occurring in young, pigmented rats. The only author who has, so far as I know, published a description of the same manifestations in rats, is Hartwell2. She attributed these symptoms to deficiency of trypto-phane and tyrosine in the diet.
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Gorter, NATURE, 134, 382; 1934.
Hartwell, Biochem. J., 17, 547; 1923.
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GORTER, F. Depigmentation, a new Dietary Deficiency Disease, cured by Copper. Nature 136, 185 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136185b0
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