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IN reply to the letter of Dickens and Weil-Malherbe1, a previous communication2 on this subject was based, except where rabbit cartilage was specified, on more than one hundred experiments with cartilage from the carpo-metacarpal joints of the adult horse, to whose metabolism that of human cartilage is very similar.
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Dickens and Weil-Malherbe, NATURE, 138, 125 (1936).
Bywaters, NATURE, 138, 30 (1936).
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BYWATERS, E. Metabolism of Cartilage. Nature 138, 288 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138288a0
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