Journal of Nutrition Vol. 30 No. 2 August 1945, pp. 127-136
Copyright © 1945 by American Society for Nutrition
Alcohol Metabolism as Related to the Production of Thiamine Deficiency1
W. W. Westerfeld and
E. A. Doisy, Jr.
Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston
The isocaloric substitution of alcohol for fat or carbohydrate in a thiamine-deficient diet delays the onset of opisthotonus and death in pigeons.
1 Supported by a grant from the Nutrition Foundation, Inc.
Manuscript received 19 February 1945.