Abstract
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By use of an amino-acid mixture simulating zein, it was found that chick-pellagra symptoms in chicks caused by the feeding of zein were due to the cumulative action of the amino-acid constituents of this protein. Glutamic acid, leucine, alanine, proline, and phenylalanine, the amino acids occurring in greatest amounts, seem to be principally involved in this connection.
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