STUDIES ON A-AVITAMINOSIS IN CHICKENS : II. LESIONS OF THE UPPER ALIMENTARY TRACT AND THEIR RELATION TO SOME INFECTIOUS DISEASES
When fowls are placed on a diet lacking in vitamin A lesions appear in the upper alimentary tract which are confined largely to the mucous glands and their ducts. Histologically it is shown that the original epithelium becomes replaced by a stratified squamous keratinizing epithelium and that secon...
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The Rockefeller University Press
1930
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2131895/ |