A Nutritional Requirement for Bromine
- 1 May 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 92 (1), 216-219
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-92-22431
Abstract
Addition of an iodinated casein with thyroid activity to a purified diet adequate in all known essential nutrients produced a growth retardation in mice. Growth inhibition was reversed by fractions of whey and by whey ash. The active inorganic conponent was found to be bromine.Keywords
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