Some factors involved in the experimental production of pellagra in rats
- 1 January 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 24 (4) , 1172-1180
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0241172
Abstract
A diet is given which produces pellagra in 4-6 weeks (17-25 days after polyneuritic symptoms occur). When cane sugar was left out of the diet, pellagra did not appear, but all the rats developed polyneuritis. Increased amounts of cane sugar did not increase the symptoms. Marmite protected against polyneuritis and allowed the pellagra to develop. Rats were shown to have a seasonal variation in the development of pellagra.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The distribution of vitamin B2 in certain foodsBiochemical Journal, 1929
- On the Composite Nature of the Water-soluble B VitaminBiochemical Journal, 1927