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IN reply to Davies et al., we may say that it has been definitely shown that their two statements quoted by us were erroneous. In the cycle, which explains the high QHCl, the hydrogen ions appearing in the gastric secretion do not originate in the splitting of water, but from the ionization of phosphoglyceric acid, produced by the fermentation of phosphogly ceraldehyde.
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Davies, R. E., Longmuir, N. M., and Crane, E. E., Nature, 159, (1947).
Coaway, E. J., and Brady, T. G., Nature, 159, 137 (1947).
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CONWAY, E., BRADY, T. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 160, 506–507 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160506b0
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