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Boy land, Wallace and Williams1 have shown that the activity of urinary β-glucuronidase is increased in patients suffering from bladder cancer and suggested that ‘spontaneous’ urinary bladder cancer could be caused by unmasking carcinogens which were inactive as β-glucuronides, but active when liberated by β-glucuronidase in the urine.
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FRIPP, P. Schistosomiasis and Urinary β-Glucuronidase Activity. Nature 188, 507–508 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188507a0
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