Effect of Primary Biotin Deficiency on the Skin of Germ-Free and Conventional Mice Fed a Purified Biotin-Deficient Diet Without Supplementation with Egg White

January 1997 in “ Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition ”

Masamichi IKEDA, Yutaka Uno, Kazuya Hamada, Hitomi Kawabe, Bunsaku Sakakibara

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