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PREVIOUS work has demonstrated that in pancreatic diabetes a disturbance of the thiamine phosphorylation processes occurs and that the administration of insulin enhances the phosphorylation of thiamine provided that a sufficient amount of this substance is available to the organism1.
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SILIPRANDI, N., BOFFI, V. & LUCARELLI, A. Action of Insulin on Thiamine Phosphorylation in vitro . Nature 176, 219–220 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176219a0
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