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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830048603321

Titolo

CIBA Foundation conference on isotopes in biochemistry [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : J & A Churchill, Ltd., 1951

ISBN

1-281-84083-1

9786611840839

0-470-71516-2

0-470-71485-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Novartis Foundation Symposia ; ; v.806

Disciplina

574.19

Soggetti

Radioisotopes in biochemistry

Biochemistry - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Isotopes in Biochemistry; Foreword; Contents; Opening Address; Part I-Steroids; Metabolism of 14C-labelled steroids; High cholesterol content of human spleen; The biosynthesis of radioactive cholesterol br surviving liver slices; Studies with deuterium steroids; Part II-Hbmoglobin and Metabolic Derivatives; The biosynthetic mechanism of porphyrin formation; Studies on mammaIian red cells; Preliminary investigations for a study of energy utilized by the surviving fowl erythrocyte in hsem synthesis; Iron metabolism in pathological conditions

Part III-Use of Tracers in the Study of Biological Effects of RadiationThe modification of X-ray sensitivity by chemicals; Effect of X-rays on nucleic acid and protein synthesis in the Jensen rat sarcoma; Radiation dose in tracer experiments involving auto-radiography; Synthesis of deoxyribose nucleic acid and nuclear incor- poration of 35S shown by autoradiographs; Part IV-Nucleic Acids; The biosynthesis of pyrimidines in vitro; Studies with organic- and bio-synthetic nucleosides and nucleotides; The use of radiophosphorus in the study of the nucleic acids

Rate of synthesis and quantitative variations of the ribo- nucleic acid



during the growth of a culture of Polytomella coecaPart V-Proteins and Amino-Acids; A method for the evaluation of the rate of protein synthesis in man; Turnover rates during formation of proteins and poly- nucleotides in regenerating tissues; Synthesis of phenylalanine and tyrosine in yeast; Part VI-Carbohydrate and Fatty Acid Metabolism; A study of acetone metabolism, using glycogen and serine as indicators, and the role of C1-compounds in metabolism; Asymmetric citric acid

Mode of formation of fatty acids from acetate and glucose, as studied in the mammary gland