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AN in vitro assay which could be adapted to a routine determination of some physiological effect of insulin would be useful in a search for new compounds having insulin-like activity. These preliminary investigations were designed to determine whether insulin would influence the turnover of carbon-14 labelled HeLa cells.
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MELNYKOVYCH, G., MILLER, P. Effects of Insulin on Turnover of Carbon-14 in HeLa Cells. Nature 195, 499–500 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195499a0
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