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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI103862

PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM IN MAN. I. THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF OROTIC ACID

Lloyd H. Smith Jr. and Faith A. Baker

Huntington Memorial Laboratories and the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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This study was supported by a research grant from the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.

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A preliminary report of this work has been published in abstract form (J. clin. Invest. 1958, 37, 932).

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Huntington Memorial Laboratories and the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

*

This study was supported by a research grant from the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.

†

A preliminary report of this work has been published in abstract form (J. clin. Invest. 1958, 37, 932).

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Published May 1, 1959 - More info

Published in Volume 38, Issue 5 on May 1, 1959
J Clin Invest. 1959;38(5):798–809. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI103862.
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