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Science 14 March 1969:
Vol. 163. no. 3872, pp. 1194 - 1195
DOI: 10.1126/science.163.3872.1194
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Purines: Active Transport by Isolated Choroid Plexus

Richard D. Berlin 1

1 Department of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Purines are actively accumulated by the isolated rabbit choroid plexus by a specific saturable transport mechanism. In vivo this system probably serves to excrete the purine catabolities of brain from cerebrospinal fluid into blood.


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