Studies on the Vitamin B Complex in the Nutrition of the Dog

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Abstract
Dogs receiving a highly purified vitamin B complex free ration supplemented with thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, and choline may grow erratically and suboptimally. Growth may be increased by the addition of liver extract to the ration. By further purification of the casein in this ration growth is usually arrested and anorexia and loss of weight occur. This condition is curable by liver extract. Preliminary evidence indicates that the condition is not curable by mixtures of inositol, p-amino benzoic acid, and glutamine. The onset of this deficiency is much slower and more chronic than is observed with those six B vitamins mentioned above.

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