858 Woodacres Road
Santa Monica, CA 1982
31 JAN 1914 – 1989
1942 PhD University of California, Berkeley
1973 MPH UCLA
1953 – 1956 Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Nutrition,
University of Southern California (“USC”)
1956-1959 Visiting Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Nutrition, USC
1959-1965 Adjunct Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Nutrition, USC School of
Medicine
1962-1965 Director, Institute of Biological Research, Culver City, California
1966-1970 Scientific Director, Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research, Culver City,
California
1966-1974 Adjunct Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Nutrition, USC School of
Dentistry
1971-1978 Director, Institute for Nutritional Studies, Culver City, California
1966-1982 Research Professor of Biochemistry, Loma Linda University School of
Medicine, Loma Linda, California
1977-1982 Research Nutritionist, Dept. of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
A partial list of articles and scientific reports by Dr. Benjamin Ershoff
ERSHOFF, BH: Antitoxic effects of plant fiber. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 27(12): pp.1395-1389. December 1974.
ERSHOFF BH, LAL JB, BERNICK S: Beneficial effects of fish protein concentrate on increment in body weight and microscopic appearance of the tibia and alveolar bone of rats fed a wheat flour-containing ration. J Dent Res. 49(3): pp.581-588. May-June 1970.
The prevention of coronary arteriosclerotic heart disease with chondroitin sulfate A: preliminary report. Exp Med Surg.; 27(3):278-89. 1969.
Ershoff BH, Bernick S: Effects of a clay supplement on body weight increment, bones, and teeth of rats. J Dent Res.; 47(2):260-71. March-April 1968.
Shapiro M, Bernick S, Ershoff BH. Preventive effects of a clay supplement on alveolar pathology and dentin hypoplasia in rats fed a rachitic diet. J Periodontology 39(1):43. January 1968.
BERNICK S, ERSHOFF BH. HISTOCHEMICAL STUDY OF BONE IN ESTROGEN-TREATED RATS. J Dent Res. 42:981-9. July-August 1963.
ERSHOFF BH, ALFIN-SLATER RB, BERNICK S. Osteoporosis in dystrophic mice. Protective effect of testosterone propionate and estradiol benzoate administration. Arch Pathol. 72:599-601. November 1961.
ERSHOFF BH, STEERS CW Jr. Bioflavonoids and survival time of mice exposed to multiple sublethal doses of x-irradiation. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med.;105:283-286. November 1960.
ERSHOFF BH, STEERS CW Jr.: Antioxidants and survival time of mice exposed to multiple sublethal doses of x-irradiation. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med.;104:274-276. June 1960.
ERSHOFF BH. Beneficial effects of alfalfa meal and other bulk-containing or bulk-forming materials on the toxicity of non-ionic surface-active agents in the rat.
J Nutr.;70:484-490. April 1960.
ERSHOFF BH, HERNANDEZ HJ. An unidentified water-soluble factor in alfalfa which improves utilization of vitamin A. J Nutr. 70:313-20. March 1960.
ERSHOFF BH, HERNANDEZ HJ, MUCKENTHALER JM. Beneficial effects of the plant residue factor on the survival of thyrotoxic rats. J Nutr. 10; 67(3):381-96. March 1959.
ERSHOFF BH, HERNANDEZ HJ. An unidentified factor in alfalfa which counteracts mineral oil toxicity in the rat and mouse. J Nutr. 10; 65(4):575-88. August 1958.
ERSHOFF BH. Effects of flavonoids on response of rats fed massive and suboptimal doses of vitamin A. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med.; 5(4):660-4. August-September 1957.
ERSHOFF BH: Beneficial effects of alfalfa and other succulent plants on the growth of immature guinea pigs fed mineralized dried milk ration. J Nutr. 10; 62(2):295-312. June 1957.
ERSHOFF BH. Nutrition and stress. Nutr Rev.; 13(2):33-6. February 1955.
ERSHOFF BH. Effects of vitamin A malnutriture on resistance to stress.
Proc Soc Exp Biol Med.; 79(4):580-4. April 1952.
The above citations came from a near-complete list (123 of some 190 written by Dr. Ershoff) of articles that can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
See especially: BHE: Physiologic Effects of Dietary Clay Supplements, Submitted to NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, General Research Procurement Office, 2101 Webster-Sezbrook Road, Houston, TEXAS. July 19, 1965.
A Supplementary list of 159 (mostly with the same articles, although arranged in a different order) may be found at:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22author%3AB.%20H.+author%3AERSHOFF%22
including:
ERSHOFF BH : Distribution of an unidentified antithyrotoxic factor in materials of plant and animal origin. - Proc Soc Exp Biol Med, 1950 74(2):391-94. June 1950.