A Search for Vitamin D in the Diatom Nitzschia closterium (W. Sm.)
- 1 January 1927
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 21 (2), 368-372
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0210368
Abstract
Cultures of this marine diatom fed to rats failed to protect against rickets. From this result it does not appear that the unicellular marine organisms are the ultimate source of the vitamin D in cod-liver oil.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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