QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Purchase Article View Shopping Cart Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Combs, G. F. Articles by Heuser, G. F. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Combs, G. F. Articles by Heuser, G. F.

The Interrelationship of Manganese, Phosphatase and Vitamin D in Bone Development

School of Nutrition and Department of Poultry Husbandry, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

In rachitic chicks it was found that the bone phosphatase is increased to an abnormally high level the same as in the rachitic rat. By omitting manganese from the rachitogenic diet, the bone phosphatase was decreased to approximately the normal amount. The difference in the phosphatase levels in the bones of groups of chicks fed rachitogenic diets, with and without an adequate quantity of manganese, was found to be much greater than the difference in the phosphatase levels in the bones of groups of chicks fed a non-rachitogenic diet, with and without an adequate quantity of manganese.