On the Porphyrin Nature of the Fluorescent "Blood Caked" Whiskers of Pantothenic Acid Deficient Rats
- 14 November 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 94 (2446), 467
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.94.2446.467
Abstract
The red deposit around the nose and on the whiskers of pantothenic acid deficient rats is not blood but copro-porphyrin and is derived from the Harderian gland.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Hemorrhagic Adrenal Necrosis in Rats on Deficient DietsPublic Health Reports®, 1939
- Über die Verteilung von Porphyrinen zwischen Äther und Salzsäure und ihre Anwendung zur Trennung von Porphyringemischen.Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift Für Physiologische Chemie, 1937