Multigeneration Studies on the Effect of Dietary DDT on the Vitamin A Status of the Weanling Rat
- 1 May 1971
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
- Vol. 49 (5) , 382-386
- https://doi.org/10.1139/y71-044
Abstract
The feeding of a nutritionally adequate stock diet containing 20 p.p.m. p,p′-DDT to rats for three generations demonstrated that this pesticide decreased liver stores of vitamin A in weanling rats. The lower vitamin A levels were not modified in successive generations of weanlings. The DDT effect was not apparent in the dams at maturity. Possible public health implications are discussed.Keywords
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