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Experimental Kwashiorkor and Marasmus

Nature volume 220, pages 917–919 (1968)Cite this article

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DURING the past two decades, there has been a growing scientific interest in the diseases kwashiorkor and marasmus. Their study could add considerably to our understanding of the regulation of metabolic processes in mammals and of the interrelation of nutrition to mental development and infection. Progress in these studies has so far been greatly handicapped by the failure, in spite of numerous attempts, to produce these conditions completely in experimental animals.

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EDOZIEN, J. Experimental Kwashiorkor and Marasmus. Nature 220, 917–919 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220917a0

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