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WHILE using the rat hemidiaphragm method for assay of insulin1,2, it was noticed that the right hemidiaphragm, when incubated in the presence of insulin (2 milliunits/ml.), takes up significantly more glucose per unit weight, per unit time than the left hemidiaphragm. The basal uptake (without insulin) of the right hemidiaphragm was slightly more than the left, but the difference was not significant. The combined results of seven separate experiments are shown in Table 1.
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BINGLE, J. A Significant Variable in the Rat Hemidiaphragm Assay of Insulin. Nature 197, 595 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197595a0
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