CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Foreword by 



Sir Charles Harington, PhD, frs, Director, National 

 Institute for Medical Research, London . . . . v 



Opening Address 



A. S. McFarlane, ma, mb, chB, National Institute for 

 Medical Research, London ...... 1 



Part I— STEROIDS 



Chairman: A. S. McFarlane, ma, bsc, mb, chB 

 Editor: A. S. McFarlane, ma, bsc, mb, chB 



Metabolism of i*G-labeiIed steroids 



C. P. Leblond, PhD, Dept. of Anatomy, McGill University, 

 Montreal ......... 4 



Discussion 



R. J. BoscoTT, C. P. Leblond, M. Marois, C. Heidel- 



BERGER ......... 12 



High cholesterol content of human spleen 



K. Bernhard, Physiologisch-chemisches Institut, University 



of Basle ......... 14 



Discussion 



D. Rittenberg, K. Bernhard, K. Bloch ... 16 



The biosynthesis of radioactive cholesterol by surviving 

 liver slices 



S. GuRiN, PhD, and R. O. Brady, md, Dept. of Physiological 

 Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania .... 17 



Discussion 



K. Bloch, W. G. Dauben, D. Rittenberg ... 24 



Studies with deuterium steroids 



T. F. Gallagher, PhD, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York 28 



Discussion 



R. J. BoscoTT, T. F. Gallagher, D. Rittenberg, K. 

 Bloch 38 



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