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THE recent letter of Bywaters1 on this subject prompts us to describe some observations made independently in the course of a study of normal mammalian tissues showing an anærobic type of metabolism. Following our investigation of the metabolism of the medulla of kidney2, a tissue recognized as having a poor capillary supply, we were led to study cartilage because this is an entirely non-vascularized tissue, and here we found the same association of anaerobic type of metabolism and poor oxygen supply as in medulla of kidney.
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Bywaters, NATURE, 138, 30 (1936).
Dickens and Weil-Malherbe, Biochem. J., 30, 569 (1936).
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DICKENS, F., WEIL-MALHERBE, H. Metabolism of Cartilage. Nature 138, 125–126 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138125b0
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