Growth and Ascorbic Acid Content of the Chick Embryo
Open Access
- 1 December 1960
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Development
- Vol. 8 (4), 527-539
- https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.8.4.527
Abstract
Ascorbic acid (ASA) is actively synthesized by germinating plant seeds (see Mapson, 1953), and by the embryos of various animal species (refs, in Needham, 1942).Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effects of Deficiency in AnimalsPublished by Elsevier BV ,1954
- Function of Ascorbic Acid in PlantsVitamins & Hormones, 1953
- The reduction of glutathione by plant tissuesBiochemical Journal, 1951
- Activity of Some Enzymes Involved in Carbohydrate Metabolism in Normal and Scorbutic Guinea Pigs.Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1950
- Determination of Ascorbic Acid in Presence of Interfering Substances by the ‘ Continuous-Flow’ MethodBritish Journal of Nutrition, 1947
- Rate of Formation of Nucleic Acid in the Organs of the Rat.Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 1943
- DISTRIBUTION OF ASCORBIC ACID IN THE BLOOD AND ITS NUTRITIONAL SIGNIFICANCEJCI Insight, 1940
- A note on the presence of vitamin C in the chick embryoBiochemical Journal, 1934
- PHYSIOLOGICAL ONTOGENYThe Journal of general physiology, 1926
- On an Autoxidisable Constituent of the CellBiochemical Journal, 1921