SUBJECT INDEX 



915 



Syphilis, blood cholesterol in, 484 

 Systemic blood, bile acids in, 112 

 vitamin A in, 333, 334 



Taurine, 70, 71, 78, 79, 85 

 Taurocholic acid, 70, 147 

 Taurodesoxycholic acid, and choleic acid 



formation, 109 

 Tay-Sachs' disease, 701, 702 

 Teaseed oil, digestibility coefficient, 216, 



217 

 Teichman net, 121 

 Teleost fishes, bile acids of, 83, 84 

 TEPP (see Tetraethyl pyrophosphate) 

 Testes, arachidonic acid in, 533, 771 



lecithinase in, 26 



lipid composition of, 570, 771, 772 



sulfolipids in, 753 

 Testosterone, effect on blood carotene, 494 



effect on lipoproteins, 378 

 Tetradecenoic acid, in depot fat, 527 

 Tetraethyl pyrophosphate, as cholinester- 



ase inhibitor, 38, 39 

 Tetrahydroxycholane (see Tetrahydroxy- 



cholestane) 

 Tetrahydroxycholestane, 76 

 Tetrahydroxyhomocholane, 77 



from bullfrog bile, 77 

 Tetrahydroxynorbufostane, 76 



from bile of Japanese toad, 76 

 Tetrahydroxynorsterocholanic acid, 75, 

 78,79 



from bile of hen, 78 

 "Thaw" diagrams, composition of choleic 



acid and, 106, 107 

 Theobromine, lipotropic action of, 658 

 Theophylline, lipotropic action of, 658 

 Thiamine (see also Vitamin B) 



effect on fat deposition, 611 



fat synthesis and, 543, 544 



fatty livers caused by, 682, 688 

 "Thiery" loop (see Thiry-Vella fistula) 

 Thiouracil 



effect on carotene absorption, 289, 290 

 on carotene digestibility, 302, 303 

 on carotene metabolism, 309 



hypercholesterolemia and, 437 



Thiourea, effect on carotene, metabolism, 



309 

 Thiry-Vella fistula, 123-126 

 Gumilewski modification, 124 

 Johnston modification, 125, 126 

 Thoracic duct, cannulation, 129, 130 

 fatty acids in lymph, 184 

 lipids in lymph, 167, 264 

 Thymus, effect of choline on, 665 

 in Gaucher's disease, 703 

 lipids in, 570 

 Thyroid, arachidonic acid in, 533 



effect on carotene conversion, 307-310 

 on bile cholesterol, 339 

 on blood lipids, 436-440 

 on plasma cholesterol, 339, 437-439 

 on serum lipoproteins, 377 

 relation to atherogenesis, 469, 473 

 relation to fatty livers, 686-688 

 Thyroidectomy, effect on carotene me- 

 tabolism, 308-310 

 effect on serum lipase, 18 

 Thyrotoxicosis, fatty livers and, 687 



role of cholesterol in, 769 

 Thyrotropic hormone, fat mobilizing ac- 

 tion of, 613 

 Thyroxine, effect on 



body fat, rats, 585, 596, 597 

 carbohydrate-fat transformation, 616 

 carotene, 308 



absorption, 289, 290 

 digestibility, 302, 303 

 cholinesterase, 35 

 milk fat, 798 



muscle phospholipids, 738 

 storage of vitamin A, 319 

 Tissue injury, blood lipids following, 433 

 Tissue lipids (see also Adipose tissue, Body 

 fat) 

 comparative composition, 568-572 

 deposition in various species, 522-524 

 during embryonic development, 579 

 effect of age on composition, 575-579 

 content, 573-575 

 distribution, 573 

 effect of inanition on, 603 



of sex on, 582-584 

 normal distribution, 568, 572, 707-791 



