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THE acetone extract from posterior pituitary lobes of cattle includes a number of substances of special interest. One of these substances decreases the growth-rate of young animals, plant seedlings and transplantable mouse carcinoma1–3. Another substance when injected into white mice of practically cancer-free strain causes the appearance of malignant tumours in about 25 per cent of the animals treated4.
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WACHTEL, H. Posterior Lobe of the Pituitary Gland and the Metabolism of Lipides. Nature 163, 254 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163254a0
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