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TABLE XVI 



Pantothenic Acid Content op Normal Tissues" 



(Dry basis) 



Embryo Embryo 



rat chick Mature 



Mature Mouse, Beef, Hog, (12-day), (12 day), Chicken, human, 



Tissue rat, y/g. 7/g. 7/g. 7/g. 7/g. 7/g. 7/g. 7/g. 



Entire carcass 



Liver 



Spleen 



Heart 



Kidney 



Muscle 



Lung 



Brain 



Ovary 



Pancreas 



Thymus 



Thyroid 



Testes 



Skin (with hair) 



Intestinal tract 



Adrenal cortex 



Anterior pituitary 



Posterior pituitary 



Adrenal gland (whole) 



37 _____ — — 



370 120 150 160 140 300 190 136 



59 7.6 31 37 — — — 25 



200 150 63 83 140 400 180 78 



190 150 73 150 — — — 99 



32 25 28 28 — — — 53 



58 26 36 44 _ — _ 26 



71 82 66 55 240 380 310 68 



40 — 78 — — — — 18 



52 — 44 _ _ _ _ — 



150 — 25 _____ 



80 — 7— — — — — 



150 — 70 _ _ _ _ 32 



5.2 — — — — — — 7.5 



63 ______ 24 



— — 64 _____ 



_______ 20 



" Data from the University of Texas. ''"^' Values determined by microbiological assay. Other values for 

 various tissues^^ and for 13 different chicken muscles^- are available. 



39 L. D. Wright, J. R. McMahan, V. H. Cheldelin, A. Taylor, E. E. Snell, and R. J. 



Williams, Univ. Texas Puhl. 4137, 38 (1941). 

 " R. J. Williams, A. Taylor, and V. H. Cheldelin, Univ. Texas Publ. 4137, 61 (1941). 

 " A. Taylor, M. A. Pollack, and R. J. Williams, Univ. Texas Publ. 4237, 41 (1942). 

 *2 E. E. Rice, E. J. Strandine, E. M. Squires, and B. Lyddon, A rch. Biochem. 10, 251 



(1946). 



