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Amino-acid Composition of Ascitic Fluid and Blood Plasma from Mice bearing Ehrlich-Lettre Tumour

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WHEN an in vitro incubation system for amino-acid incorporation and protein synthesis by Ehrlich ascites tumour cells (unpublished results) was in development there was a need to find a natural environmental supply of amino-acids on which a synthetic medium could be based. For this reason the amino-acids of the ascitic fluid around the cells, the plasma of mice bearing ascitic tumour and the plasma of normal controls were analysed. The results give an added insight into the protein nutritional state of the tumour-bearing mouse.

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  1. PATRICIA A. DREWES

    Present address: Departments of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

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  1. Department of Biological Chemistry, Center for Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California

    PATRICIA A. DREWES & RALPH W. MCKEE

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DREWES, P., MCKEE, R. Amino-acid Composition of Ascitic Fluid and Blood Plasma from Mice bearing Ehrlich-Lettre Tumour. Nature 213, 411–412 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213411a0

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