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AN intimate relationship between nervous activity and ammonia formation had already been suggested by Tashiro1, and recently Richter and Dawson2 have pointed out the great significance of the rapid formation of ammonia in brain tissue, relating brain activity to functional metabolism.
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TSUKADA, Y., TAKAGAKI, G. Ammonia-formation Systems in Brain Tissue. Nature 173, 1138–1139 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1731138a0
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