STUDIES ON A-AVITAMINOSIS IN CHICKENS : I. LESIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT AND THEIR RELATION TO SOME INFECTIOUS DISEASES
1. The principal tissue changes in the respiratory tract of chickens caused by a vitamin A deficiency in the food are, first, an atrophy and degeneration of the lining mucous membrane epithelium as well as of the epithelium of the mucous membrane glands. This process is followed or accompanied by a...
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The Rockefeller University Press
1930
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2131897/ |