Weanling male rats receiving a diet low in zinc for 2-3 weeks had a significant increase of liver nonprotein SH compounds and glutathione over those fed an adequate zinc diet. Deficiency of this trace element caused an increase in the incorporation rate of glycine-1-14C into liver glutathione moiety, but it had no effect on protein synthesis.
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Hsu et al. (1968) studied this question.