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IN the course of an investigation on a reduction in tensile strength of the skin of the rat's tail, produced by incubation in physiological saline1 and thought to be due to production of acid metabolic products, the effects of various metabolic inhibitors were examined, including cyanide. This produced an increase in tensile strength which was so large and unexpected that it seemed worth further investigation.
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HARKNESS, M., HARKNESS, R. An Effect of Cyanide and Nitriles on Connective Tissue. Nature 205, 912–913 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205912a0
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