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EXPERIMENTS are being carried out in order to decide whether ‘hexuronic acid’ is the antiscorbutic factor. So far as is known, the distribution of this acid in plants follows closely the distribution of vitamin C. In the animal body it can also be found in relatively high concentration in the suprarenal cortex. Its chemical properties closely agree with the known properties of the vitamin. It was discovered and isolated several years ago at the Biochemical Laboratory, Cambridge.1
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SVIRBELY, J., SZENT-GYÖRGYI, A. Hexuronic Acid as the Antiscorbutic Factor. Nature 129, 576 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129576a0
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