Abstract
Summary
A ninhydrin positive compound present in embryonic chick muscle and in dystrophic chick breast muscle at 2 weeks after hatching was shown to be cystathionine. Cystathionine is characteristically present in embryonic muscle and its persistence in dystrophic muscle several weeks after hatching when it has disappeared from normal muscle is further evidence for retarded development of dystrophic muscle.
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