July It, 1962

Dr. Richard L. Masland, M.0

Director, National Institute of Neurological
Diseases and Blindness

Kational Institutes of Health

Bethesda 1h, Maryland

Dear Dick:

A propos our earlier correspondence, | am glad to see someone has
Picked up the significance of the triparanol for cholestero]
development in the brain:

Scallen, T.J., R-M. Condie and G. J. Schroepfer, Jr., 1961.
Inhibition by triparanol of cholesterol formation In the brain
of the newborn mouse. J. Neurochem. 9: 99-104.

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

ray! Puvisriy

JL: edf