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SUBJECT INDEX 



Bile pigments 



biological role, 5, 570 

 classes, 96, 103. 106 (table), 112 (table) 

 bilanes, 105, 134ff. See also Meso- 



bilane, Tetrahydromesobilane. 

 biladienes-(a, c), 108, 110, llSfiF. 

 See also Bilirubin, Mesobili- 

 rubin. 

 biladienes-(a, b), 108, 124, 125ff. 

 See also Mesobiliviolin, Meso- 

 bilierythrin. 

 biladienones and biladiene-diols. 111, 

 124, 130ff. See also Biliviolin- 

 oid, Bilierythrinoid, Bilichrysins. 

 bilenediones and bilenetetrols. 111, 



144, See also Choletelin. 

 bilatrienes, 108, 110, 113ff. See also 



Biliverdin, Mesobiliverdin. 

 bilenes-(a), 109, 138. See also 



Mesobilene-(a). 

 bilenes-(b), 134ff., 140ff., 143 

 definition, 95 

 estimation, 153ff. 

 isomerism, 96, 100, 460 

 metal complexes, 108, 118, 123, 131, 

 139. See also Bile pigment hem- 

 atins. 

 nomenclature, 103, 105, 124, 128, 134 

 physical properties, 102, 107, 123 

 stereochemistry, 100 

 structure, 3, 95, 100 

 synthesis in vHro, 99, 457 

 Bile pigment chromoproteins 



of algae, 145. See also Phycocyanin, 



Phycoerythrin. 

 of animals, 148, 569 

 Bile pigment formation 



in invertebrates and plants, 569 

 in vitro, from hematin, 453, 456, 

 459 

 from hemoglobin, 460, 471 

 photochemical, 471 

 in vivo, earlier theories, 504 

 from hematin, 504, 575 

 from hemoglobin, 503, 525, 544. 

 See also Biliverdin, Choleglohin. 

 and hemiglobin formation, 597 

 and porphyrin formation, 594, 595 

 site of, 538ff. 

 in tissue cultures, 540 

 Bile pigment hematins. See also Verdo- 

 hematin, Choleglohin. 

 in catalase, 405, 413, 499 



in cytochrome a2, 371 

 in organs, 543 

 Bilichrysins, 112 (table), 131, 133 

 Bilierythrinoid oxidation products of 



bilatrienes, 133 

 Bilifuscins, 149. See also Mesobilifuscin, 

 Myobilin, Lanaurin, Copronigrin, 

 in blood plasma, 546, 560 

 mode of formation, 500 

 Bilin, 104, 105 



Bilipurpurins, 112 (table), 130ff. 

 Bilirubin, 106 (table), 120 



absorption (light), 121, 122 (table), 547 



in bile, 549 



in blood plasma, 148, 546ff. 



clearance tests, 549 



diazo reaction, 121 



"direct" and "indirect" bilirubin, 148, 



154, 546 

 estimation, 153flF. 

 excretion, 549ff. 

 in bile fistula, 549 



increase by hematin injection, 



504, 575 

 increase by high fat diet, 533 

 and life span of erythrocyte, 509 

 Whipple technique, 544 

 in feces, 551 

 in urine, 550 

 and hemopoiesis, 609, 626 

 hyperbilirubinemia, 537, 546, 549 

 preparation, 120 



protein compounds, 123, 148, 244, 547 

 side chains, 119 

 in stored blood, 529 

 synthesis, 100 (table), 101 

 Bilirubinic acid, 98 

 Biliverdin, 106 (table), 114 



absorption spectra, 116, 117 (table) 



in bile, 505 



from catalase (liver), 413 



dimethyl ester ferrichloride, 113, 115 



as "green hemin ester," 456 

 in feces, 552 



formation, from bilirubin, 113, 114 

 from normal erythrocytes, 483, 529 

 from hemin, 99, 456, 459 

 from hemoglobin, 471, 505, 507 

 by coupled oxidation, 456, 460, 472 

 in invertebrates, 569, 570 

 in jaundice, 507, 546 

 in meconium, 549 

 and mesobiliverdin, 115 



