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SEVERAL recent communications have dealt with the capacity of ingested hydrogen peroxide to affect the regression of implanted tumours in rats. Holman1 has claimed that a 0.45 per cent solution of hydrogen peroxide given to rats in lieu of tap-water caused regression of certain tumours ; the opposite conclusion has been stated by Green and Westrop2 and by Ghadially and Wiseman3. Accordingly, it seemed important to determine the effect of hydrogen peroxide on normal rats.
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Holman, R. A., Nature, 180, 1033 (1957).
Green, H., and Westrop, J. W., Nature, 181, 128 (1958).
Ghadially, F. N., and Wiseman, G., Nature, 181, 1067 (1958).
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HANKIN, L. Hydrogen Peroxide Ingestion and the Growth of Rats. Nature 182, 1453 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821453a0
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