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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018884603321

Titolo

CIBA Foundation conference on isotopes in biochemistry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786611840839

9781281840837

1281840831

9780470715161

0470715162

9780470714850

0470714859

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

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.