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Abstract
Essential fatty acid deficiency has been produced in rats without superimposing a deficiency of vitamin A. The fatty acid composition of normal and deficient rat tissues was determined. Retina and brain were much less changed in composition by essential fatty acid deficiency than other tissues. The electroretinographic response was only slightly altered. A loss of mural cells from the retinal capillaries was the only morphologic change observed.