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Figs. 163-168a. Prepared from 0.3 ml of plasma and erythrocytes (a series) of a rabbit before 
and after administration of nitrogen mustard (see text). Samples taken before drug admini- 
and 96 h after drug. The upper arrows to alanine and the lower 
stration and 5, 24, 48, 72, 
arrows to glutamine in erythrocytes. 
and glutamine (Figs. 164a—-168a) and then in valine and the leucines (Fig. 1674) 
with smaller reductions in glycine and serine. In general the total free amino acid 
pool of erythrocytes was decreased by mustard as observed in humans. 
The largest fall in total plasma free amino acids of the mustard treated group was 
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