Vitamin D from sterols of mummified Egyptian brain
- 1 January 1929
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 23 (2), 166-167
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0230166
Abstract
By chemical and animal tests it is established that the ergosterol content of cholesterol, isolated from brain after about 1400 years, is of the same order as that of cholesterol prepared from fresh brain.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- A specific colour reaction for ergosterolBiochemical Journal, 1929
- The specificity of ergosterol as parent substance of vitamin DBiochemical Journal, 1928
- The Anti-Rachitic Properties of Irradiated SterolsBiochemical Journal, 1926