Word: tocopherols
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural oils is difficult and expensive, but last winter Chemist Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized it from coal tar. Dr. Evans promptly fed alpha tocopherol to sterile rats, and this week he told the International Physiological Congress at Zurich, Switzerland, that all 200 of the rats gave birth...