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Science 10 January 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3602, pp. 143 - 144
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3602.143
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Vitamin D3: Direct Action on the Small Intestine of the Rat

David Schachter 1, Szloma Kowarski 1, and James D. Finkelstein 1

1 Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York

Vitamin D3 placed directly into loops of rat duodenum in vitamin D deficient animals increases markedly the subsequent transport of calcium by slices of the duodenal loop in vitro. Under similar conditions the same dose of vitamin given intravenously or placed in a jejunal loop has little or no effect on the duodenal tissue. Thus the vitamin acts directly on the small intestine without prior activation in another organ.


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