Title: Retine
CAS Registry Number: 51848-43-2
Literature References: Inhibitor of malignant growth, extracted along with promine, a cancer growth-promoting and sterilizing substance, from calves' thymus: A. Szent-Györgyi et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 48, 1439 (1962). Sterilizing action of promine caused by another substance, infertine: A. Hegyeli et al., ibid. 49, 230 (1963). Prepn from calves' aortas: A. Szent-Györgyi et al., Science 140, 1391 (1963); from human urine: A. Hegyeli et al., ibid. 142, 1571 (1963). Identification studies: L. G. Együd, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 54, 200 (1965); A. Szent-Györgyi, ibid. 57, 1642 (1967). Review of promine/retine theory: M. P. Kalapos, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1426, 1-16 (1999); of retine composition: D. E. Douglas, J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 54, 1429-1431 (2002).
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