SUBJECT INDEX 



739 



Mesobilane (contd.) 



absorption from intestine, 555 

 Ehrlich aldehyde reaction, 139 

 formation from bilirubin by liver 



enzymes, 551, 552, 553, 554 

 occurrence in urine and feces, 134 

 Mesobilene-(a), 106 (table), 138 

 Mesobilene-(b), 100 (table), 106 (table), 

 136, 137 (table) 

 absorption spectra and complex salts, 



139, 140 (table) 

 occurrence in urine and feces, 134 

 oxidation, 137 

 Mesobilierythrin, 106 (table), 128, 130 

 (table) 

 as prosthetic group of phycoerythrin, 

 128 

 Mesobilifuscin, 150 



prosthetic group of myobilin, 148 

 Mesobilirhodin. See Mesobilierythrin. 

 Mesobilirubin, 97, 98, 100 (table), 106 

 (table), 120 S. 

 absorption spectrum, 122 (table) 

 dimethyl ester, 121 

 distinction from bilirubin, 120 

 in intestine, 551 

 Mesobilirubinogen. See Mesobilane. 

 Mesobiliverdin, 100 (table), 106 (table), 

 115ff. 

 absorption spectra, 116, 117 (table) 

 dimethyl ester, 116, 460 

 ferrichloride, 116, 457 

 distinction from biliverdin, 115, 116 

 as prosthetic group of pterobilin, 148 

 Mesobiliviolin, 106 (table), 124-128 

 absorption spectra and complex salts, 



126 

 in feces, 104, 127, 559 

 as prosthetic group of phycocyanin, 127 

 "Mesobiliviolinogen," 126 

 Mesohematin 

 catabolism, 575 

 catalatic action, 402 

 dimethyl ester, 169 



hemogIol)in from, 240 

 oxidation-reduction potentials, 193, 



194 (table) 

 peroxidase, 425 

 Mesohemochromes, 175 (table), 176, 177 



(table), 182 (table), 196 

 Mesohemoglobin, 208, 239, 496 



Mesoporphyrin "II," from hemoglobin, 



586 

 Mesoporphyrin IX, 47, 51 (table), 59, 69 

 (table), 74 (table), 75 (table), 76 

 (table) 

 in bile, 581 

 from catalase, 413 

 from cytochrome c, 350 

 from erythrocruorins, 309 

 in feces, 588 

 Methemalbumin, 243. See also Hemal- 

 biimin. 

 in blood, 243, 533, 573, 576 

 distinction from other blood pigments, 



497, 498 (table) 

 formation from hemoglobin, 576 

 and porphyrin formation, 597 

 Methemoglobin. See Hemiglobin. 

 Methylene blue, 391, 514, 515, 521, 522 

 A^-Methylporphyrin, 82 

 Monazahematin compounds. See Aza- 



hematin compounds. 

 Myeloperoxidase. See Peroxidases. 

 Myobilin, 148, 543. See also Mesobili- 

 fuscin. 

 Myohematin, 344 



Myohemoglobin, 213, 306, 307 (table), 

 309, 317, 326 

 adaptation to oxygen pressure, 625 

 amino acid composition, 317 

 biological function, 325, 330, 334 

 breakdown, 543, 599 

 cholemyohemoglobin, 473 

 cyanmyohemoglobin, 216 

 dissociation of oxymyohemoglobin, 



262, 295 

 hemochromes from, 224 

 in invertebrates, 307 (table), 334, 654 

 kinetics of reactions with gases, 



284, 287 

 light sensitivity of carboxymyohemo- 



globin, 289 

 linkage of heme with protein in, 217, 



245, 284, 287 

 molecular weight, 247, 287 

 in muscle, 324 



oxidation-reduction equilibrium, 270 

 preparation, 213 

 pseudomyohemogiobin, 488 

 solubility, 319 

 span, 311 

 Myohemoglobinuria, 535 



