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THE ability of duck blood rich in reticulocytes to incorporate in vitro carbon-14 from NaH14CO3 has been previously investigated1. Separately we have demonstrated incorporation into globin, hæm and stroma. The widespread incorporation suggested that the first products of carboxylation belonged to a pool from which all the substances we examined would be synthesized. This communication is concerned with an attempt to identify some labelled precursors (pyruvic and α-ketoglutaric acids).
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BRECCIA, A., FANTOLA, A., GIUSTINA, G. et al. Labelled Keto-Acids in Duck Blood incubated in vitro with NaH14CO3. Nature 183, 1328–1329 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831328a0
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