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The riboflavin requirement of the White Wyandotte chick. III. The rates of depletion of the tissues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

W. Bolton
W. Bolton
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and the Queen's University of Belfast
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1. Experiments are described in which the riboflavin contents of the liver, kidney, heart and leg muscles of chicks were assayed during the first few weeks after hatching, using birds reared on both riboflavin-deficient and riboflavin-adequate diets.

2. Changes in the composition of the liver during the first 3 weeks after hatching have been studied.

3. At hatching, half the chick's liver consists of oil; this proportion is maintained during the first week, but falls to about one-eighth during the second week and maintains this level during the third week.

4. When birds are reared on a riboflavin-deficient diet, the riboflavin concentrations of the heart and kidney are reduced more rapidly than that of the leg muscles.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 1947 , pp. 323 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1947

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