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PKEVIOUS work in this laboratory on the storage of vitamin E in growing chicks has shown that on y α-tocopherol was present in the liver. Since normal poultry foods often contain a high proportion of non-α-tocopherols1,2 the ability of the chick to utilize these compounds is of importance. American workers, using the transfer of tocopherol into the egg as an index of utilization3, found no evidence of the conversion of either γ- or δ-tocopherol to α-tocopherol, but direct measurements of liver storage were not made.
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GRIFFITHS, T. Relative Rates of Liver Storage of Pure α-, β-, γ- and δ-Tocopherols in the Growing Chick. Nature 183, 1061–1062 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831061a0
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