Attempts to Produce Vitamin Deficiency Diseases by Feeding Compounds Related Structurally to Vitamins

Abstract

Summary

In contrast to the findings with bacteria, pantothenic acid deficiency of mice and of hamsters was not produced by the feeding of the sulfur analog of pantothenic acid (N-(β,β-dimethyl-α,γ-dihydroxybutyryl)-taurine). Similarly, the feeding of pyridine-3-sulfonic acid did not produce symptoms of nicotinic acid deficiency.