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IN the course of a study of the decomposition products of radioactive octamethylpyrophosphoramide in white clover (Trifolium repens, strain S100) it was found incidentally that extracts from clover, whether previously treated with this compound or not, inhibited choline-esterase in vitro.
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HEATH, D., PARK, P. An Irreversible Choline-esterase Inhibitor in White Clover. Nature 172, 206 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172206a0
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