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The pretreatment of brain-cortex slices with mescaline does not affect tRNA or aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, nor have the latter any role in the decreased amino acid incorporating ability of ribosomes of the drug-treated slices.
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The study was supported by the Saul Singer Foundation, the Charles H. Silver Fund, and the Lenore Weinstein Fund, New York. The author thanks Steven Friedfeld, Richard Seelig, Victoria Dixon and Caryl Towner for able assistance.
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Datta, R.K. Mescaline-induced changes of brain-cortex ribosomes. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch. Pharmacol. 280, 107–111 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00505360
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