Cure and Prevention of Vitamin E-Deficient Muscular Dystrophy with Synthetic  -Tocopherol Acetate

G. C. Knowlton, H. M. Hines, K. M. Brinkhous

Experimental Biology and Medicine · 1939 · 12 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

From these results it may be concluded that subcutaneous injections of synthetic α-tocopherol acetate are effective in both the cure of and the prevention of the nutritional muscular dystrophy seen in rats maintained from an early age on a vitamin E-deficient diet.