| Autor: |
Jacob B. Feldman |
| Rok vydání: |
1939 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Archives of Ophthalmology. 22:595-607 |
| ISSN: |
0003-9950 |
| DOI: |
10.1001/archopht.1939.00860100079007 |
| Popis: |
Laboratory experiments on animals have definitely shown an association between avitaminosis A and delayed regeneration of the visual purple.1Observations during the Lenten fasts in Russia and in the European countries during the World War have verified these findings in man. I have often been able to corroborate the results of the animal experiments indirectly in patients on relief and deprived of normal diet on whom I have done dark adaptation studies. That the liver is the storehouse of vitamin A2is the accepted opinion. It would therefore appear that since the liver plays such an enormous role in the metabolism of the body, avitaminosis A might affect the metabolism of the liver to some extent. Studies have been made on patients with renal calculi,3various glandular disturbances4and other diseases wherein the metabolism was disturbed. An effort was made to find what association there is |
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