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IT was shown by Green1 and Bielschowsky and Green2 that injection of the sodium salts of adenosine triphosphate, obtained from Dyckerhoff's "myotoxin", into a variety of animals resulted in a shock-like syndrome. It was suggested that the pyrophosphate group might be responsible for at least some of the described effects.
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Green, H. N., Lancet, ii, 147 (1943).
Bielschowsky, M., and Green, H. N., Lancet, ii, 153 (1943).
Szent-Györgyi, A., Ber., 75, 1868 (1943).
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BIELSCHOWSKY, M., GREEN, H. Organic and Inorganic Pyrophosphates as Shock-Inducing Agents. Nature 153, 524–525 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153524a0
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