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Influence of Inorganic Sulphate on the Copper–Molybdenum Interrelationship in Sheep

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IN 1945 we published the first experimental observations1 which showed that the storage of copper in the livers of sheep and cattle could be significantly reduced by an increase in the molybdenum intake, and we suggested that an abnormally high molybdenum intake may possibly explain, among other things, the seeming anomaly of copper deficiency in sheep-grazing pastures which show by ordinary chemical analysis a copper concentration within normal limits.

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DICK, A. Influence of Inorganic Sulphate on the Copper–Molybdenum Interrelationship in Sheep. Nature 172, 637–638 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172637a0

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