Dietary zinc deficiency has been shown to decrease the in vivo incorporation of thymidine into the nuclear DNA of liver parenchymal cells in the rat. A single injection of 100 μg of zinc was sufficient to rapidly reverse the effect of zinc deficiency on the synthesis of DNA.
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