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THE recent popularity of neat or aqueous dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) as a solvent for biological work—for example, in tissue culture studies of substances causing enucleation of fibroblasts1 and of the rate of virus penetration of HeLa cells2—has encouraged us to make the following report.
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BANTHORPE, D., LAMONT, D. Potential Toxicity of Solutions of Dimethyl Sulphoxide. Nature 215, 1296–1297 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151296a0
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