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WE have read with interest the letter from Mr. C. Berkeley in NATURE of November 17, p. 724. Referring to the substance found in animal tissues after insulin, which gives the -naphthol reaction, but is without reducing action on copper salts, he suggests that our failure to find reducing power after hydrolysis by acids may be due to a pentose constituent going over to furfurol and being lost by volatilisation.
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WINTER, L., SMITH, W. Is the Pentose of the Nucleotides formed under the Action of Insulin?. Nature 112, 829–830 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112829a0
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