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ANALOGIES between the ciliary process production of aqueous humour and the choroid plexus production of cerebrospinal fluid have been reviewed quite extensively by Davson1. The presence of an adenosine triphosphate-activated 5-adenylic acid deaminase in purified preparations of hog and rabbit ciliary process tissue2,3 led to an interest in a similar system that might be present in choroid plexus tissue. It has, in fact, been shown by other investigators that 5-adenylic acid deaminase activity is present in preparations of whole dog brain4,5.
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WAITZMAN, M. Comparative Adenylic Acid Deaminase Activity in Choroid Plexus and Ciliary Process Tissue. Nature 185, 388 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185388a0
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