SUBJECT INDEX 



909 



Pitressin, effect on liver lipids, 721, 723, 



724 

 Pituitary, anterior, effect on 



adipose tissue metabolism, 612-614 

 blood lipids, 440, 441 

 fatty livers, 684, 685 

 liver lipids, 721-723 

 Pituitary, posterior, effect on liver lipids, 



723, 724 

 Pituitary hormones, acetylcholine syn- 

 thesis and, 65 

 Pituitrin, effect on liver lipids, 721 

 Placenta, choline acetylase, 64 

 cholinesterase, 56 

 lipids in, 775 

 permeability for carotene, 489 



for lipids, 408, 409 

 tocopherols in, 518 

 Plant sterols (see Phytosteroh) 

 Plasma carotene, nutritional status and, 



506, 507 

 Plasma vitamin A, nutritional status and, 



506, 507 

 Plasmalogens in 

 adrenals, 770 

 brain, 746, 747 

 intestine, 790 

 liver, 711, 712 

 muscles, 732 

 pancreas, 788 

 spleen, 771 

 Pneumonia, blood carotene and vitamin A 

 level in, 509 

 hypocholesterolemia in, 483 

 Polyalkylene derivative of sorbitan mono 



palmitate (see Tween 40) 

 Polymerization of fats, effect on digesti- 

 bility, 232-234 

 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate 



(see Tween 20) 

 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate (see 



Tween 80) 

 Poppyseed oil, digestibility coefficient, 216 



unsaturation of, 590 

 Portal blood, bile acids in, 112 

 fat absorption study and, 133 

 fat transport in, 166, 168-170 

 fatty acids in, 169, 183, 184 



Portal blood (continued): 



lecithin in, 249 



vitamin A in, 333, 334 



vitamin E in, 336 



vitamin K in, 336 

 Potassium cyanide, as cholinesterase in- 

 hibitor, 35 

 Preen gland, lipids in, 786, 787 

 Pregnancy, blood and bile cholesterol, 339 



blood lipids in, 406, 407 



cholinesterase levels in, 51 



chylomicrons in, 429 



effect on ovarian lipids, 773, 774 



fat absorption in, 179 



tocopherols in blood, 517, 518 



vitamin A in blood, 502 

 Prime steam lard 



digestibility coefficient, 231 

 effect of protein diet, 237 

 Pristane, 278 



in fish liver oil, 713, 714 

 Pro-y-carotene, biopotency of, 293, 297 



transformation into vitamin A, 306 

 Prolactin (see Hormone, lactogenic) 

 Propionic acid, absorption rate, 181-183 



in goat's blood, 351 

 Propionylcholine, 47, 48 

 Propylene glycol esters, as inhibitors of 



Iipolysis, 8 

 Prostigmine, as cholinesterase inhibitor, 



32, 37, 39 

 Protamine, effect on lipemia, 430, 431 

 Protein 



as source of body fat, 546-553 



through carbohydrate formation, 549- 

 553 



complexes with carotenoids, 366-368 



complexes with fatty acids, 356, 357 



complexes with tocopherols, 370 



glycogen formation from, 550, 551 



lipotropic action of, 642-644, 647, 648 

 Protein diet, effect on fat digestibility, 



237, 239 

 Proteolipids, in brain, 749, 750 

 Provitamin A, potency of 



a- and 7-carotene, 293, 294, 296, 297 



/3-carotene, 221, 284, 296 



cryptoxanthin, 294, 297 



