These studies show that uridine supplementation can quantitatively prevent D-galactosamine sensitization to lethal endotoxin shock. This observation serves to discount the possibility that mechanisms which do not involve uridine nucleotide depletion may contribute even marginally to the basic biochemical mechanism of D-galactosamine sensitization.
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