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SUBJECT INDEX 



Soybean oil (continued): 



nutritional value, 911, 913, 917 



effect of rancidity, 922 

 tocopherols in, 690, 691, 901 

 vitamin K in, 754 

 Soybean phosphatide, fat emulsion sta- 

 bilizer, 205, 206 

 Soybeans, activator of lipoxidase in, 114, 

 115 

 EFA in, 827 



effect on plasma carotene, 448, 449 

 lipoxidase in, 110-112 

 Soy sterols (see Phytosterols) 

 Span 20, fat emulsion stabilizer, 206 

 Species, effect on, acetylation reaction, 262, 

 263 

 biochemical requirement for vision, 575, 



576 

 Ca, P metabolism, 662 

 carotenoids, in blood, 457-459, 461 

 in milk, 555-558 

 metaboUsm, 424, 425, 439, 441 

 storage, 509 

 cholesterol absorption, 363 



in blood, 372 

 choline oxidase activity, 242 

 deposition of linolenic acid, 185 

 EFA conversions, 813, 815 



requirements, 797, 801-804 

 ketonuria, 146-154, 175 

 linoleic acid transformation, 185 

 lipemic constant, 372 

 lipogenesis, 39, 40 

 insulin effect, 36 

 tocopherol deficiency symptoms, 718, 

 724 

 requirement, 715, 716, 746-748 

 vitamin A, in milk, 555-558 



requirement, 578-589 

 vitamin A, and A2 distribution, 498, 499 

 vitamin D, distribution, 642-648 

 in milk, 648 

 requirement, 675-678 

 Spectrophotometric determination, of poly- 

 unsaturated fatty acid, 791, 792 

 Sperm whale liver oil, hydrocarbons in, 321 

 Sphingomyelin, 248 



deposition in Niemann-Pick's disease, 6 



Sphingomyelin (continued): 



formation in liver, 52 



hydrolysis of, 237, 238 



in phospholipid synthesis, 249 



turnover in brain, 55, 56 

 Sphingomyelinase, 237 

 Sphingosine, degradation of, 248 



synthesis of, 67, 248 

 Spinach, AAE in, 108 



digestibility of carotene from, 431 



hydrocarbons in, 319 



vitamin K in, 754 

 Spinal chord, cholesterol deposition in, 402 



dehydrosphingosine in, 248 



phospholipids in, 56 



provitamin D in, 633 

 Spleen, cerebrosides in, 6, 7 



cholesterol oxidation in, 242 

 synthesis in, 394 



fatty acid oxidation in, 110, 201 



ketogenesis in, 194 



vitamin A in, 511 



hypervitaminosis, 609 



vitamin D in, 655 

 Sprue, effect on vitamin A absorption, 436 

 Squalene, cholesterol from, 323, 325, 382, 

 384-388 



metabohsm, 323-325 



occurrence, 322 

 Stearic acid, 90 



antibacterial action, 868 



biosynthesis, 24 



effect on diabetes, 863 



from lauric acid, 25 



from myristic acid, 20 



in molds, 874 



ketone bodies from, 98 



oleic acid from, 96, 118, 119, 796 



oxidation, 201 



effect of choline, 202 



w-oxidation, 307 



palmitic acid from, 13, 257 

 Stearoglyceride, 100 

 Stearolic acid, metabolism of, 98, 99 

 Stearoyl alcohol, metabolism of, 98, 99 

 Steer, ketonuria in, 146 



selenium poisoning, 267 

 Stercorine, 369 



