Production and Study of Vitamin E Deficiency in the Baby Pig

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Thirty-seven baby pigs were used in two experiments whose purpose was to produce and study a deficiency of vitamin E. Only under the conditions of a stress provided by at least 5% of cod-liver oil in the diet was an unmistakable deficiency produced. Symptoms of this deficiency included: death, creatinuria, degeneration of skeletal and cardiac muscle, degeneration of the liver and presence of a brownish-yellow substance in the adipose tissue. The deficiency was not accompained by changes in EKG or by ability of dialuric acid to hemolyze red blood cells. Vitamin E served to prevent appearance of these deficiency symptoms.

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