Antirachitic

It can be considered proved, therefore, that ergosterol, or possibly a sterol, the physiological effects of which correspond completely with those of ergosterol, constitutes the antirachitic provitamin, i.e. the mother substance of vitamin ❋ Unknown (1966)

The research carried out in recent years, in which Windaus himself has also played a leading part, has revealed the very important fact that, on being irradiated with ultraviolet light, this ergosterol assumes exactly the same properties as the antirachitic vitamin, "vitamin D", i.e. it will cure rachitis ❋ Unknown (1966)

American physiologist Alfred Hess to come to New York to cooperate in the study of the antirachitic vitamin. ❋ Unknown (1966)

British view that the A vitamine is the antirachitic factor. ❋ Walter H. Eddy (N/A)

The British diets are all based on Mellanby's contention that the "A" vitamine is the antirachitic vitamine. ❋ Walter H. Eddy (N/A)

Mellanby of England believes the "A" vitamine is the preventive factor in this disease but Hess's results at least suggest the possibility that the antirachitic vitamine may be separate and distinct from any of those yet named, possibly vitamine "D?" ❋ Walter H. Eddy (N/A)

The study of rickets has already progressed to the stage of calculating rickets-producing diets and the methodology is identical with that for scurvy but this phase of testing still lacks evidence of an antirachitic vitamine and in that uncertainty it is hardly worth while to elaborate these diets here. ❋ Walter H. Eddy (N/A)

There was a narrow thorax showing the distinct beads of rickets; the upper and lower limbs were very short, but improved under antirachitic treatment. ❋ Unknown (1896)

In the 1920s, biochemist Harry Steenbock identified the structure of vitamin D and metabolites by antirachitic activity. ❋ Unknown (2010)