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IN diabetes mellitus it is not only the concentration of blood sugar which is altered but also the “saccharoid fraction”—the difference between the total reducing capacity of blood and the true concentration of glucose1. The exact nature of the saccharoid fraction is not known, but it would seem to be a non-specific mixture of all the reducing substances present in the blood, including glutathione, creatinine, glucuronic acid and cysteine. The significance of this fraction of the blood in pathological conditions is not well understood.
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KHAN, I., RAHMAN, M. Variation of Saccharoid Fraction in Diabetes Mellitus. Nature 215, 979–980 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215979a0
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