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Isotopes incorporated in the Nucleic Acids of Trypanosoma mega

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THE trypanosomes can be cultured in media containing nucleic acids or purines. Crithidia fasciculata grows in a synthetic medium with folic acid, guanine or guanosine1,2. Trypanosoma cruzi has been cultured by Citri and Grossowicz3 in a defined medium enriched with ribonucleic acid, and its growth is stimulated by guanosine. T. rhodesiense seems to need adenine and adenosine as growth factors4.

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BONÉ, G., STEINERT, M. Isotopes incorporated in the Nucleic Acids of Trypanosoma mega. Nature 178, 308–309 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178308a0

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