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Science 18 September 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3951, pp. 1208 - 1209
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3951.1208
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Monosodium Glutamate: Feeding of Large Amounts in Man and Gerbils

Gaetano Bazzano 1, John A. D'Elia 1, and Robert E. Olson 1

1 Departments of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Oral administration of large amounts of glutamic acid to adult humans and animals in a formula diet appeared to cause no clinical pathological changes. The only biochemically demonstrable effect was a decrease in serum cholesterol and associated beta lipoproteins.


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