Isolation and identification of methyl glyoxal from human milk, preliminary report.

glyoxal (or like substance) in human milk, while he has since been doubting if pyruvic acid does ever play any all-important role in the disease.3) But some pediatricians want to ignore his theory, as, since the Embden-Meyerhof scheme of carbohydrate metabolism became known, pyruvic acid has come into favor, while methyl glyoxal seems to have lost in favor. I am inclined to say that our Clinic has been the only one to lay stress on methyl glyoxal as the sole causative agent of the disease. After a long continued discussion with associate Prof. N. Nakamura, esp.