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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 52 No. 2 February 1954, pp. 217-225
Copyright © 1954 by American Society for Nutrition
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The Effect of Incipient Vitamin A Deficiency on Reproduction in the Rabbit

I. Decidua, Ova and Fertilization1

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G. E. Lamming2, G. W. Salisbury, R. L. Hays and K. A. Kendall

Department of Dairy Science, University of Illinois, Urbana

A study was made to determine the effect of incipient vitamin A deficiency, i.e., the deficiency before visible symptoms occur, on the early stages of reproduction in the female rabbit. The vitamin A deficiency did not reduce decidua formation after the insertion of a thread into the uteri of mated females. The deficiency did, however, produce premature degeneration of ova and reduced the number of fertilized ova at 40 hours and 4 days post coitum.

1 The data reported in this paper were taken from a thesis submitted by the senior author to the Graduate College of the University of Illinois in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

2 Present address: University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, England.

Manuscript received 18 September 1953.




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