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THE loss of dark adaptation and night blindness which characterizes the earliest stages of retinitis pigmentosa suggested to us the possibility that one of the fundamental features of the pathological physiology of the disease is failure of utilization of carotene and vitamin A.
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JOSEPHSON, E., FREIBERGER, M. Carotene Therapy of Retinitis Pigmentosa. Nature 139, 155 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139155a0
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