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DURING investigations in this laboratory on the fate of foreign organic compounds in locusts, we wished to find out whether these insects formed conjugated glucuronic acids. In the higher animals, glucuronic acid conjugation appears to be a major detoxication mechanism particularly for hydroxy compounds1; but there appears to be no record in the literature of this mechanism occurring in invertebrates.
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MYERS, C., SMITH, J. Formation of Glucosides from Phenols in Locusts. Nature 172, 32–33 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172032a0
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