Abstract
THE variable occurrence in normal human urine of a substance giving a green colour with ninhydrin on paper chromatograms (RF 0.86 in phenol, 0.28 in collidine–lutidine) has been described1. This substance has been identified as methyl-histidine2.
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DATTA, S., HARRIS, H. Dietary Origin of Urinary Methyl-Histidine. Nature 168, 296–297 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168296a0
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