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USING radioactive phosphorus as indicator, a group of investigators from the University of Palermo have determined the relative amounts of inorganic phosphorus (sodium phosphate) taken up by different organs when injected into young rats. Subsequent analysis shows the presence of radioactive organic (lipidic) phosphorus in liver intestine and kidney, in much greater amounts than in muscle or brain. This indicates, according to the authors, that “the participation of the phospholipids... results in a complete synthesis starting from inorganic phosphorus”.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 139, 845 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139845b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139845b0