Journal of Nutrition Vol. 27 No. 6 June 1944, pp. 447-452
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Vitamin Interrelationships
III. Influence of Sub-Optimum Doses of Thiamine on Urinary Excretions of Riboflavin1
Barnett Sure
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Chronic thiamine deficiency produces great losses of riboflavin in urine, uncomplicated by body tissue catabolism, and hence lowers the retention of the latter vitamin.
1 Research paper no. 784 Journal series, University of Arkansas. Published with the approval of the Director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. This investigation was aided by a grant from the Williams-Waterman Fund of the Research Corporation.
Manuscript received 1 February 1944.