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SUBJECT INDEX 



Blood corpuscles, cholesterol in, 370 



phospholipids synthesis in, 50, 57 

 Blood plasma, cholesterol in, 870-377 

 source, 400 



lipids and ketoniiria, 150 



phospholijiids synthesis in, 50, 54, 57, 

 62 

 Body weight, and tocopherol requirement, 



747, 748 

 Bond energy-, in acetylation, 28 

 Bone, effect of tocopherol on metabolism, 

 713 



in hypervitaminosis A, 607, 608, 616 



in hypervitamhiosis I), 679, 680 



in vitamin A deficiency, 598, 599 



vitamin I) in, 656, 657, 670-672 

 Bone marrow, carotenoids in, 51 1 



effect of irradiation on lipogenesis in, 39 



fat, as bacteriolysin, 872 



in tocopherol deficiency, 707 



phospholipids synthesis in, 58, 59 

 Brain, arachidonate in, 183 



cephalin oxidation in, 238 



cerehrosides in, 7 



cholesterol deposition in, 402 

 role, 419 

 synthesis, 397 



condensing enzyme in, 170 



dehydrosphingosine in, 248 



EFAin,833 



fat synthesis in, 18 



fatty acid oxidation in, 110 

 turnover, 194 



fatty aldehydes in, 318 



hexaenoic acid in, 187 



lipids, importance of, 836 



phosjjholipid synthesis in, 50, 51, 55-57 



provitamin D in, 632 



sphingomyelin hydrolysis in, 237 



sphingosine in, 67 



unsaturated fatty acid in, 190, 816 

 oxidation, 201 



vitamin A in, 54 



vitamin D in, 655, 656 

 Bran, tocopherols in, 690, 691 

 Branched-chain acids, AAE activity with, 

 108 



in cholesterol biosynthesis, 384-387 



Branched-chain acids (continued): 

 ketone bodies from, 130, 131 

 metabolism, 291-300 



/3-methyl-substituted, 294, 295 

 miscellaneous, 29()-300 

 /3-substituted, 292-294 

 w-oxidation of, 87, 90 

 succinate from, 308 

 Brassicasterol, absorption of, 365 

 Bromobenzene, detoxication of, 266, 267, 



345 

 p-Bromobenzyl bromide, 266 

 Bromo-derivatives of unsaturated fatty 



acids, 788 

 p-Bromophenol, 345 



j[^-Bromophenylmercapturic acid, 266, 345 

 p-Bromoplu'iiyl sulfuric acid, 345 

 lirussels sprouts, 320, 322 

 Butterfat, absorption late, 907, 908 

 carotenoids in, 512, 55() 

 coefficient of digestibility, 905 

 EFA in, 830-832 

 effect on COj utilization, 878 



on galactosuria, 876 

 fatty acids, 10, 96 



antibacterial action of, 869 

 glycogen from, 220 

 growth-promoting action on bacteria, 



893, 894 

 nutritional value, 909-920 

 provitamin D in, 635 

 stability and dietary tocopherol, 738 

 subcutaneous administration, 204 

 tocopherols in, ()92, 902 

 vitamin A in, 556, 557, 899 



seasonal variation, 560 

 vitamin D in, 648, 649 

 Butter yellow, effect on choline oxidase, 

 244 

 effect on riboflavin storage, 359 

 Butylacetic acid, tertiary, excretion of, 



296 

 /3-n-Butyladipic acid, utilization of, 34 

 Butyl alcohol, in fatty acid synthesis, 12 

 X-Butylamide oleic acid, 98 

 ?i-Butylbenzene, 344 

 Butyl succinate, utilization of, 308, 312 

 Butyraldehyde, oxidation, 108, 109 



