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Summary
High oral intakes of folic acid are stored inefficiently in chick livers and have little if any effect on the content of this vitamin in chick muscle tissue. Chicks given large oral doses of folic acid and then placed on a folic acid-deficient diet grew as well as chicks receiving an equivalent amount of folic acid by injection. The distribution of folic acid in some representative chick tissues has been studied.
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