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I HAVE found vitamin A in considerable concentrations in solutions of the visual purple, in intact retinas, and in the pigment-choroid layers of frogs, sheep, pigs and cattle. The non-saponifiable extracts of these eye tissues display in detail all of the characteristics of vitamin A-containing oils.
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WALD, G. Vitamin A in the Retina. Nature 132, 316–317 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132316a0
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