Animal experiments have shown that a deficiency results in poor growth, reduced feeding efficiency, hearing loss, bilateral hair loss and diminished hemoglobin synthesis.
Tin is essential for the growth of rats maintained on purified amino-acid diet in a trace element control environment.
Though a human deficiency syndrome has not been reported so far, preferential bioaccumulation of tin in thymus gland and increased blood tin levels after experimental tumor transplantation suggests its possible role in immune mechanisms.
Tin deficiency
