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Unidentified Growth Factors

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IT is well known that spent wash (the liquor re maining in the whisky still after distilling the spirit) contains factors which increase the growth of chicks. This growth promotion appears to be unrelated to mineral components1, and although complementary to the effect of penicillin in chick feed2, it may similarly result from changes in the gut flora3.

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  1. Research and Development Department, The Distillers Company Limited, Great Burgh, Epsom

    K. A. ALLEN & J. STEPHENS

  2. University of Bristol Veterinary School, Langford, Somerset

    W. P. JAFFE

  3. National Chemical Products Limited, 172/3 Tottenham Court Road, London, W.1

    J. A. WAKELAM

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ALLEN, K., STEPHENS, J., JAFFE, W. et al. Unidentified Growth Factors. Nature 184, 271–272 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184271a0

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