SUBJECT INDEX 



883 



Cholesterol esters {continued): 

 distribution in fatty livers, 680 

 effect of biotin on deposition in liver, 677 

 hydrolysis in vitro, 255 

 in adrenals, 765-769 

 in blood, 353, 354, 363, 385 



normal range, 379 



relation to total, 389, 390, 445, 446, 

 461, 484 

 in brain, 756 

 in fatty livers, 680 



effect of biotin on deposition, 677 

 in hair, 782 

 in kidney, 728 

 in lipoproteins, 364, 365 

 in liver, 726 

 in milk, 793, 794 

 in muscle, 736, 739 

 in nervous tissue, 763 

 in ovaries, 773 



effect of pregnancy, 774 

 in respiratory tract fluid, 787 

 in skin, 776, 777 

 lipase action on, 11, 255 

 Cholesteryl oleate, in plasma, 354 

 Cholic acid, 70, 73, 83 



cholesterol absorption and, 263 

 conversion to cholanic acid, 85 

 effect on cholesterolemia, 431 

 methylcholanthrene from, 279 

 physical constants, 86, 87 

 relation to dehydrocholic acid, 89 

 Choline, absorption,. 170 

 biosynthesis, 650-657 

 effect of excessive doses, 670 

 effect on acetylcholine formation, 668 



on atherosclerosis, 481 



on cholesterol absorption, 264 



on cholesterol fatty livers, 641 



on cholinesterase, 35 



on chologenesis, 691 



on dietary cirrhosis of liver, 642 



on fat absorption, 187, 193 



on growth, 665 



on intestinal motility, 92 



on kidney, 665-668 



on lactation, 668 



on nutritional edema, 669, 670 



Choline {continued): 



on perosis, 668, 669 



on phospholipid turnover, 395, 664 



on thiamine fatty livers, 676, 678 

 from lecithin, intestinal, 248 

 in blood plasma, 380 

 in egg yolk, 812, 816 

 lipocaic action on fatty livers, 671, 672 

 lipotropic action of, 639-642, 657-659, 



663, 676, 688 

 metabolism in fatty liver, 696, 697 

 physiological role of, 662-670 

 Choline acetylase, 4, 61-65 

 distribution, 63 

 factors altering activity, 64, 65 

 inhibitors, 46 



mechanism of action, 61-63 

 occurrence, 27 



separation from cholinesterase, 61 

 Choline analogues, lipotropic action of, 



659-662 

 Choline oxidase, fatty livers and, 652, 



670, 697 

 intracellular distribution of, 657 

 transmethylation and, 652 

 Cholinergic nerves, 27 

 eserine effect on, 34 

 vesicants effect on, 44 

 Cholinesterases, 4, 26-61 

 action, 28 

 definition, 261 

 discovery, 26-28 

 distribution, 29, 52-59 

 effect on cell permeability, 44-46 



on nutritional status, 49 

 factors altering amount of, 46-53, 403 



albuminuria, 51 



anemia, 51 



electroconvulsive treatment, 51 



hemorrhage, 51 



hyperthyroidism, 51 



neoplastic diseases, 51 



pregnancy, 51 



psychoses, 51 



vitamin E deficiency, 53 

 in brain, 751, 752 

 inhibition, 29, 34-44 



by alkyl phosphates, 17 



