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A LOWERING of brain potassium has been demonstrated in insulin-induced hypoglycæmic encephalopathy in cats1. As ovine pregnancy toxæmia has been tentatively identified as hypoglycæmic encephalopathy2, determinations were made of the potassium content of slices, approximately 2 mm. thick, taken from the surface of the cerebral cortex of sheep dead, or in extremis, from either pregnancy toxæmia or prolonged insulin hypoglycæmia. Similar samples wore taken from normal sheep.
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SETCHELL, B., McCLYMONT, G. Depression in Brain Potassium in Ovine Pregnancy Toxæmia. Nature 175, 998 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175998a0
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