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Urinary Excretion of some Purine Bases in Normal and Schizophrenic Subjects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. A. Booth  and
E. B. O. Smith
D. A. Booth
Affiliation:
Biochemistry Department, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
E. B. O. Smith
Affiliation:
Herrison Hospital, Dorchester, Dorset
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Kishimoto (1958) reported quantitative and qualitative peculiarities in the absorption spectra of body fluids in schizophrenia, and considered that there were abnormalities in the oxidation of adenine through hypoxanthine and xanthine to uric acid.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 467 , July 1964 , pp. 582 - 587
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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