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DANA W. ATCHLEY

Arch Intern Med. 1915;XV(5 1):654-658.

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The digestion of nuclear material and the production of purin bases therefrom has been discussed from three points of view: (1) the morphological destruction of the nucleus; (2) the digestion of the so-called nucleoproteids and nucleins ; and (3) the splitting of nucleic acid. The localization of the third stage, namely, nucleic acid digestion, has been unquestionably settled by the demonstration of a nuclease in the erepsin of a dog (Nakayama,¹ 1904) and of its absence from the gastric and pancreatic juices (Levene and Medigreceanu,² 1911). Confirmatory evidence is afforded by the work of London and Schittenhelm³ (1910) who found no difference in the nucleic acid metabolism of a normal dog as compared with animals in which the stomach or the pancreas had been removed, or those with a ligated pancreatic duct.

The morphological destruction of the nucleus has been the subject of much controversy since the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Medical Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 3, 1914.

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