Journal of Nutrition Vol. 15 No. 3 March 1938, pp. 221-227
Copyright © 1938 by American Society for Nutrition
The Paralysis in the Young of Vitamin E Deficient Female Rats1
One Plate (Four Figures)
H. S. Olcott2
Biochemical Laboratory, State University of Iowa, Iowa City
The paralysis in the young of vitamin E deficient female rats is due to lesions of the skeletal muscle very similar in character to those observable in the so-called nutritional muscular dystrophy of Herbivora.
1 Presented in part before the thirty-first meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists at Memphis, April 21, 1937 (Proc. Am. Soc. Biol. Chem., J. Biol. Chem., 119, xxiv, 1937).
2 Present address: Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Manuscript received 4 October 1937.