SUBJECT INDEX 



733 



Erythrocruorins (contd.) 



linkage of prosthetic group with 



protein,. 245 

 loading and unloading tensions, 332, 



333 (table; 

 microenvironment, 322 ff. 

 molecular weight, 312, 313, 322 

 shape of molecule, 322 

 solubility, 318 

 span, 289, 310 

 Erythrocyte, 323 flF., 512, 513 S., 605. 



See also Hemoglobin, Hemighbin, 



Hemoly.ns, Hemopoie.ns, Oxyhemo- 

 globin, Reticulocytes, Siderocytes. 

 bile pigment hemoglobin in normal, 



483, 529, 562 

 breakdown, intracorpuscular, alter- 

 ations preceding, 522, 524-532 



normal, 512, 529 ff. 



by phenylhydrazine, 524 



in stored blood, 528 

 carbohydrate metabolism, 514 

 choleglobin in, 477, 483, 526, 527 

 count, 605 



disintegration of dying, 532 

 enzyme systems in, 513 ff. 

 erythrocytopoiesis, 603, 604, 614 

 faulty, 535, 536, 537 

 fluorescytes. See Porphyrins. 

 fragility, 535 

 fragmentation, 513, 533 

 hemoglobin, concentration in, 323, 606 



protection in, 531 



spectrum in, 323 

 hyper- and hypochromic, 606 

 life span, from bilirubin excretion, 509 



from maturation of reticulocytes, 511 



from N*' in hemin, 510 



from radioactive P, 511 



from sulfhemoglol>in disappearance, 

 510 



from transfusion experiments, 512, 

 513 



from urobilin excretion, 510 

 mean corpuscular hemoglobin, 606 

 mean corpuscular hemoglobin con- 

 centration, 606 

 mortality curve, significance, 512, 532 



in disease, 536, 537 

 permeability of membrane, 514, 517, 



537, 596 

 phagocytosis, 533 

 porphyrin in, 579 ff.,3, 59856, 629 



Erythrocyte (contd.) 



respiration, 514 ff., 519, 521, 537, 614, 

 615 

 Michaelis-Salomon effect, 516, 537 

 spherocytosis, 536 

 Etioporphyrin 



mesoetioporphyrin, 51 (table), 59 

 chlorophyll etioporphyrins, 53 (table), 

 59 

 Evolution, 647. See also individual 

 compounds, 

 "atavism of porphyrins," 648 

 paleontology of porphyrins, 648 

 primitive pyrrole pigments, 649 

 resonance and color, 647 

 of respiratory enzymes, 651 



Ferritin, 565-568 



apoferritin, 567 



in catalase preparations, 404 



ferrin, 568 



and iron metabolism, 615, 622 

 Ferrobilins, 113, 456 

 Fetus. See also Embryo. 



hematinemia in, 574 



hemoglobin in. See Hemoglobin (fetal). 



liver iron in, 538 



plasma iron in, 565 

 Fluorescence methods, 18 

 Fluorescytes. See Porphyrins. 

 Fluoride compounds 



of catalase, 406 (table), 407 



of cytochrome c, 354 (table), 355 



of hemfglobin, 219 



of peroxidases, 421 (table), 422, 430, 432 

 Folic acid, 611, 612 



Glaucobilin. See Mesobiliverdin. 

 Globan, 211. See also Globin (denatured). 

 Globin, denatured, 240, 258 



combination with heme, 232 



electrometric titration, 255 



in erythrocytes, 525 



isoelectric point, 255 



renaturation, 259 

 Globin, native, 230, 258, 568 



amino acids. See Hemoglobin. 



combination, with hematins, 239 

 with metalloporphyrins, 240 

 with porphyrins, 240 



denaturation, 255 ff. 



