Organ, Urine and feces Vitamin B12 Content of Normal and Starved Rabbits
- 1 February 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 64 (2) , 281-290
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/64.2.281
Abstract
Starvation of rabbits resulted in increased concentration of vitamin B12 activity in kidney, liver, heart, and urine but plasma and spleen vitamin activites are not altered from normal. Refeeding tends to return values to normal. The vitamin B12 activity of kidney, liver, heart or feces is not affected by feeding neomycin to suppress bacterial growth in the gut, but spleen vitamin activity is reduced. The concentration of vitamin B12 in feces is not affected by the amount of food consumed or feces produced.Keywords
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