Abstract
Summary
Four generations of vitamin E-low rats were observed as to growth and reproductive behavior. In the female there was a delay in maturity in each successive generation. Growth was also affected.
The males in each generation were sterile but fertility was maintained in the fourth generation by the prophylactic administration of wheat germ oil.
Coarse, sparse, yellowish fur and dystrophy that appear in rats maintained on vitamin E-low diets appeared progressively earlier in each successive generation.
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