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THE valuable and comprehensive review by Dr. van Slyke1 fails to discuss one problem, the most important of all from the point of view of human nutrition. Accepting W. C. Rose's classification of amino acids into essential and non-essential, he has omitted to make clear, though it is implicit in his review, that this information applies only to experimental animals, indeed, only to the experimental rat. It would be interesting to know what evidence, direct or indirect, exists, if any exists, as to the indispensability or dispensability of any individual amino acid for Homo sapiens.
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BACHARACH, A. Physiology of the Amino Acids. Nature 149, 473 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149473b0
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