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Response to Vitamin B12 of Grazing Cobalt-deficient Lambs

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SMITH and collaborators1,2 have shown that vitamin B12 injected in sufficient quantity will alleviate the symptoms of cobalt deficiency in penned lambs fed a special low-cobalt ration.

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  1. Smith, S. E., Koch, Beryl A., and Turk, K. L., J. Nutrition, 44, 455 (1951).

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ANDERSON, J., ANDREWS, E. Response to Vitamin B12 of Grazing Cobalt-deficient Lambs. Nature 170, 807 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170807a0

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