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THE requirement for vitamin E is largely represented by a need for a biologically active lipid antioxidant. Vitamin E-deficient animals show in vivo lipid peroxidation and a wide variety of metabolic changes1. How metabolic changes are related to lipid peroxidation is a major problem.
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TAPPEL, A., ZALKIN, H. Inhibition of Lipid Peroxidation in Microsomes by Vitamin E. Nature 185, 35 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185035a0
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