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THE synthesis of lactose from glucose by tissue slices of active mammary glands has been successfully demonstrated by earlier workers1,2, and arteriovenous blood-sampling experiments have made it highly probable on quantitative grounds that glucose is the only significant precursor of the disaccharide in vivo.
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FRENCH, T., POPJÁK, G. & MALPRESS, F. Biological Synthesis of Lactose from Carbon-14 Glucose. Nature 169, 71 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169071a0
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