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From: 078ams@cosmos.wits.ac.za (Aletta Maria Smit)
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Subject: VITAMINS
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:27:06 GMT
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Keywords: B12 CYANOCOBALAMIN FOLIC ACID DROSOPHILA

Does anyone know if drosophila require B12 and folic acid in their diet? 
Can they synthesise these vitamins or would it be possible to raise them in 
a deficient medium so that I would be able to test the effects of nitrous 
oxide in the presence and absence of these vitamins

Alta Smit
Department of Anaesthesia 
University of the Witwatersrand 
Johannesburg 

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