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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 38 No. 4 August 1949, pp. 469-478
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Folic Acid Studies in the Mink and Fox1

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S. B. Tove, A. E. Schaefer2 and C. A. Elvehjem

Department of Biochemistry, College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1. A methanol extract of liver contains a factor which has a sparing action on the dietary folic acid requirement of the mink.
2. The effect obtained with the methanol extract is not obtained with vitamin B12 under our experimental conditions.
3. Folic acid conjugates are incapable of replacing folic acid for the fox.

1 Published with the approval of the Director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. These studies were supported by project 614 of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, and by a grant from the Borden Company, New York, N. Y.

A portion of this work was reported briefly in Fed. Proc., 8: 399, 1949.

2 Present address: Agricultural Experiment Station, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

Manuscript received 11 March 1949.




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