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Interrelationship of Vitamins

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THE successful study of vitamins depends to a large extent upon the production of uncomplicated symptoms in experimental animals which can be cured by purified preparations of the vitamin in question. However, the cure of certain symptoms even with crystalline preparations does not necessarily mean that the deficiency was due to a lack of the factor fed. We have recently encountered such conditions in our laboratory and wish to describe one such relationship briefly.

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ELVEHJEM, C., ARNOLD, A. Interrelationship of Vitamins. Nature 137, 109–110 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137109b0

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