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WHEN albino rats are kept for 6–7 weeks on a protein-free diet they lose about half their body-weight1. At the same time, almost 50 per cent of the liver proteins and ribonucleic acid disappear: this can only be explained by a decrease in their biosynthesis.
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MANDEL, P., WEILL, JD., LEDIG, M. et al. Are Nucleoside Triphosphates Precursors of Mammalian Ribonucleic Acid in vivo?. Nature 183, 1114–1115 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831114c0
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