Abstract
When the rats were fed on the daily usual infant's diet in Tohoku district, supplemented 0.05μg-5μg of selenium, the growth was hindered. Liver-fat, however, decreased and T. B. A. Value (reaction value with 2-thiobarbituric acid) becamelower. When diet containing fat turned sour were given to rat, these rats dead in 1-4 weeks, but the addition of selenium to the same diet prevented their deaths.
