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Vitamin B12 in the Serum of the Rhesus Monkey

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MOST investigations of the physiology of vitamin B12 have been carried out in man or laboratory animals other than the sub-human primates. Indeed, it has been specifically noted that vitamin B12 deficiency has not been produced experimentally in monkeys1–3, and those macrocytic anæmias which have been induced are known to respond to treatment with folic acid (sometimes in association with ascorbic acid) but not to vitamin B12 (ref. 4).

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Medical School, University of Birmingham,

    P. L. KROHN & C. E. OXNARD

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    J. N. M. CHALMERS

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KROHN, P., OXNARD, C. & CHALMERS, J. Vitamin B12 in the Serum of the Rhesus Monkey. Nature 197, 186 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197186a0

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