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A PREVIOUS investigation has shown that the isolated bladder of the toad, B. marinus, releases an inhibitor of oxytocin into the bathing Ringer's solution1. More recently a similar inhibitor has been invoked to explain the inhibition of the effects of vasopressin and of adenosine-3′, 5′-monophosphate on the toad bladder2. In the former investigation it was shown that inhibitor could be obtained by gently stirring isolated toad bladders in a modified Ringer's solution, and that the inhibitor so obtained was not readily dialysable. In the investigation reported here the previous results were confirmed; however, it was found that, following heat-treatment of the inhibitor solution, the inhibitor became dialysable. We report a modified preparation of the inhibitor based on this finding.
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KARLIN, A., OVERWEG, N. An Inhibitor of Oxytocin from the Urinary Bladder of the Toad, Bufo marinus. Nature 207, 1401–1402 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2071401b0
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