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IN a letter to NATURE for June 16, p. 810, Messrs. Winter and Smith directed attention to their observation that the blood and certain other tissues of the rabbit contain, after injection of insulin, a substance which reacts as a carbohydrate towards the α-naphthol test, but has no reducing action on copper salts even after acid hydrolysis. Commenting on this they say: “It seems possible that the carbohydrate content of the animal body may be not appreciably diminished after large doses of insulin. The above facts would suggest that the sugar stored in the body as glycogen is converted into this peculiar form.”
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BERKELEY, C. Is the Pentose of the Nucleotides formed under the Action of Insulin?. Nature 112, 724–725 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112724b0
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