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IN an earlier note1 attention was directed to the muscle-inhibiting power of clover juice and a possible relationship between this action and the disturbance known as bloat, or hoven, in cattle. Further work on a variety of herbage plant juices has confirmed the early findings2, and has led to the separation from lucerne juice, purification and probable chemical identification, of a substance capable of inhibiting muscle movement.
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FERGUSON, W., ASHWORTH, D. & TERRY, R. Nature of a Muscle-Inhibiting Compound in Lucerne and its Possible Connexion with Bloat in Cattle. Nature 163, 606 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163606a0
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