SUBJECT INDEX 



919 



Vitamin B 2 (see also Riboflavin) 



effect on fat absorption, 190 

 Vitamin B 6 (see also Pyridoxine) 



and atherosclerosis, 469 

 Vitamin Bi 2 , bile acid excretion and, 114 



choline biosynthesis and, 654, 655, 657 



effect on perosis, 669 

 Vitamin C (see Ascorbic acid) 

 Vitamins D, absorption from intestine, 

 323-326 



storage of, 708 



transport in lymph and blood, 335, 369 

 Vitamin D 2 , protective effect against 



rickets, 325 

 Vitamin D 3 , protective effect against rick- 

 ets, 325 

 Vitamin E (see also Tocopherols) 



cholinesterase and, 53 



fat absorption and, 240 

 Vitamins K, absorption, 328-330 



choleic compound, 95, 329 



distribution, 330 



relationship to hypervitaminosis A, 504 



transport in blood and lymph, 336, 370 

 Vitamin Ki, 330 

 Vitamin K 2 , 330 



Wallerian degeneration, cholinesterase 

 and, 55 

 nerve lipids and, 762, 763 

 Watermelon seed oil, digestibility coeffi- 

 cient, 216 

 Water-frog, lutein in, 296 

 Water-rat, glyconutriacholic acid in, 72 

 Waxes, absorption and digestibility, 250- 

 255 

 containing aliphatic alcohols, 250-254 

 in sebum, 785 

 in skin, 777, 780, 781 

 Whale, milk lipids, 795 

 Whale oil, absorption rate, 174 



Whale oil (continued): 



effect on depot fat, 534 



lipase action on, 12 

 Wheat germ oil, gadusene in, 278, 714 



stabilizing action on carotene, 300 

 Wild oat, chlorophyll hydrolysis, 67 

 Winter squash, lutein in, 295 

 Wool, lipids in, 782-784 



Xanthoma, 699 



Xanthoma tuberosum, and hereditary 



hyperlipemia, 473, 698 

 Xanthomatosis, 452, 453, 697-699 



composition of deposits, 697, 698 



cutaneous, 452 



essential, 453, 698 



primary, 698 



secondary, 698, 699 

 Xanthophylls, absorption of, 295, 296 



deposition in chicken skin, 503 



effect on /3-carotene utilization, 291-293 

 Xerophthalmia, 308 

 X-radiation, effect on 



blood lipids, 432 



fat absorption, 183, 194 



fatty livers, 687 



serum lipoproteins, 376 



vitamin A absorption, 319, 320 



vitamin A distribution, 320 

 X-ray patterns of choleic acids, 107 



Yeast fat, squalene in, 278 

 Yellow atrophy of the liver (see Hepatitis) 

 Yellow-banded krait, cholinesterase, 32, 

 57,60 



Zamene, 278 

 Zeaxanthin, 295 



distribution, 296, 366, 488 



