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Summary
Sex accessory fructose was analyzed from both trichloroacetic acid and ethanol-heavy metal filtrates using either the resorcinol reaction or the cysteine-carbazole method. Sex accessory fructose levels (mg/100 mg of wet wt.) were consistently higher in tissues homogenized in trichloroacetic acid than in those tissues extracted with ethanol and heavy metals. Several factors were demonstrated to affect the measurable amount of sex accessory fructose. Not only does the manner of tissue extraction affect levels, but the particular method of chemical determination leads to differences in the detectable amounts of this sugar.
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