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UNDER the above title Goodall1 showed that a mixture of carnosine di- and mono-phosphates has a relaxing action practically identical with that of creatine phosphate on the glycerol-extracted muscle fibre. He raised the question of the presence and role of this substance in muscle, and pointed out that its non-detection so far may be because it is so much more acid-labile than creatine phosphate1,2.
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CAIN, D., DELLUVA, A. & DAVIES, R. Carnosine Phosphate as Phosphate Donor in Muscular Contraction. Nature 182, 720–721 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182720a0
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