Abstract
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It is clear that neither of the possible objections to our previous method of calculating carbohydrate utilization is sufficiently valid to materially affect the end results. That is, the amounts of free sugar, higher carbohydrate intermediates, or lactic acid present in the muscles are not such as to invalidate calculations based on blood sugar and lactic acid values, and distribution ratios. This agrees with the earlier, basic work of Best, Dale, Hoet and Marks, 9 who demonstrated that the sugar which disappeared from the blood of eviscerated spinal cats was equal to the sum of the glycogen deposited in the muscles and the glucose equivalent of the oxygen consumed.
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