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Abstract
Vitamin D-deficient rat pups were produced by feeding normal impregnated rats a diet deficient in vitamin D after mating. The rat pups appeared normal at birth but stopped growing at 1 week of age. Despite this growth failure, these pups were normocalcemic. Analyses of calvaria from a similar group of dams given vitamin D3 showed that these dams mobilized skeletal calcium to meet the calcium requirements of their growing pups.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 6268261 DOI: 10.1007/bf02409449
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Calcif Tissue Int ISSN: 0171-967X Impact factor: 4.333