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THERE is now a well-established association between heparin and clearing factor1,2 and between heparin and the mast cell3. It has long been known by histologists that mast cells “are numerous in parts where fat is being laid down”4. This, and the extraction of active clearing factor preparations from adipose tissue5, suggested to us that heparin might be an essential agent in fat mobilization and deposition, and in consequence be present in all animal fat. As a preliminary step we have determined the amount of heparin in the adipose tissue of cattle and the study forms the subject of this communication.
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HIND, H., MCGINN, S. Heparin Content of Adipose Tissue. Nature 182, 117 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182117a0
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