1054 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Respiratory quotient (continued): 



following intravenous fat administra- 

 tion, 204 



for fat-carbohydrate transformation, 

 225-228, 232 



in adipose tissue, 18 



in diabetics, 227, 228 



in fat deficiency, 818 



in udder slices, 18, 19, 36, 47 



ketone bodies formation and, 227 



of fat-oxidizing liver, 194 



on high-carbohydrate diet, 9 



on high-fat diet, 227, 231 



on high-protein diet, 9 

 Reticular cerebrosidosis, G 

 Reticuloendothelial system, carotene con- 

 version in, 441, 442 



cerebrosides in, G, 7 



effect on vitamin A storage, 531 



in hypervitaminosis A, GIO 

 Reticulum, ketogenesis in, 197 



volatile acids in, 254, 255 

 L-Rhodinic acid, metabolism, 294, 295 

 Rhodophane, 505 



Rhodopsin, 451-453, 459, 545, 548, 551. 

 5G9, 601 



synthesis of, 571-575 

 Riboflavin, dietary fat and, 880, 881 



effect on acetylation, 264 

 on choline oxidase, 244 

 on lipogenesis, 40 



in butyryl-CoA-dehydrogenase, 105 



rancid fat, and, 923 

 Rice bran oil, tocopherols in, 690 

 Rice-germ oil, 325 

 Ricinoleic acid, 798 



antibacterial action, 868 



as growi:h factor for bacteria, 892 

 Rickets, 621-623 



bone formation in, 670 



relation to caries, 672 



symptoms of, 658, 659 



vs. osteomalacia, 661, 662 

 Round-worm, volatile acids in, 255 

 Rubixanthin oj^oxide monofuranoxide, 



532 

 Rumen, epithelial tissue, ketogenesis in, 

 197 



Rumen {continued): 



utilization of branched-chain acids, 299, 

 300 



vitamin K in, 755 



volatile acids in, 254, 255 

 Ruminants, body fat in, 5 



fat synthesis in mammary tissue of, 18 

 effect of insulin, 36 



/3-hydroxybutyric acid in blood, 26 



susceptibility to ketonuria, 147 

 Rutabaga, 320 

 Rye, tocopherols in, 690, 691 



Safflower oil, EFA in, 827 

 linoleic acid from, 787 

 tocopherols in, 690, 901 

 Salicylic acid, and blood clotting, 767 

 Salmon liver, unsaturated fat oxidase in, 



112 

 Sarcinene, 505 



Sarcosine, effect on phospholipid turnover, 

 64 

 oxidase, 239, 243 

 Sardine liver oil, 321 

 Scavenger beetle, sterol requirement, 378, 



379 

 Sciatic nerve, phospholipid synthesis in, 57 

 Scotopsin, 452, 570 



Seasonal variations, in milk carotenoids, 

 559, 560 

 in tocopherol, 695 

 in vitamin D, 648, 649 

 in fish oil vitamin D, 647 

 Sebacic acid, 88, 89, 97, 307, 312-314 

 adipic acid from, 311 

 amidation effect on metal)()lism, 315, 



317 

 succinic acid from, 308 

 Sebum, squalene in, 323 

 Selenium mercapturic acid, 267 

 Semicarbazide, effect on choline oxidase, 



244 

 Semi-/3-carotenone, 532 

 Senecioic acid, in cholesterol biosynthesis, 



384 

 Serine, as formyl donor, 281 



ethanolamine from, 65, 24G, 247 



