A History of the Isolation and Identification of Vitamin B6

In the 1930s, Rudolf Peters showed that young rats kept on a semi-synthetic diet with added thiamin and riboflavin but no other supplement developed ‘rat acrodynia’, a condition characterized by severe cutaneous lesions. In 1934, Paul György showed that the factor which cured ‘rat acrodynia’ was vit...

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Published in:	Annals of nutrition and metabolism Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 236 - 238
Main Author:	Rosenberg, Irwin H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Basel, Switzerland S. Karger AG 01.11.2012
Subjects:	Amino acids Nutrition research Science history Vitamin B Vitamin deficiency Discovery Pyridoxal Isolation Pyridoxine Pyridoxamine Vitamin B6
ISBN:	3318022888, 9783318022889
ISSN:	0250-6807, 1421-9697
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