556 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Evocators, nature of, 483-486 



Extraction, 

 methods, 

 deoxyribonuclease, 91 

 ribonuclease, 90 

 trichloroacetic acid, 90 



Fast green, histone and, 153 

 Fasting, see also Diet 

 nucleic acids and, 24 

 Fat, 



dietary, nucleic acids and, 24-27, 169 

 neutral, nuclear, 121 

 Fatty acids, protein binding and, 54 

 Feulgen reaction, 155, 156 

 absorption spectrum of, 66, 67 

 chemistry, 65-67 

 chromosomes and, 185-186 

 cytoplasm and, 161 

 fixation and, 70-71 

 hydrolysis, 67-68 

 chromic acid and, 72 

 optimal time, 71-73 

 purines and, 72 

 tissue differences, 73 

 methods, 91 

 methyl green and, 59 

 nucleic acid, 203 

 extraction and, 79 

 localization and, 69-70, 436 

 measurement and, 63, 74-77 

 nucleoli and, 148, 149, 150 

 specificity of, 67-69 

 variations in, 73-74 

 Fiber, 

 elastic, Feulgen reaction and, 69 

 removal from homogenates, 96-97, 114 

 Fibrinogen, dye binding and, 53, 56-57 

 Fish, deoxyribonucleic acid in, 167 

 Fixation, 

 deoxyribonuclease and, 82 

 dye binding and, 58 

 methods, 90 

 ribonuclease and, 81 

 Flavin adenine dinucleotide, mitochon- 

 dria and, 222 

 Flavoprotein oxidase, glucose oxidation 



and, 248 

 "Fluffy layer," composition of, 213 

 Fluoride, 



deoxyribose synthesis and, 263 

 glucose oxidation and, 258 

 Fluoroacetate, mitochondria and, 225, 



233 

 Folic acid, 

 hypoxan thine synthesis and, 288 

 inosinic acid synthesis and, 335 

 nucleic acid synthesis and, 376-377 

 purines and, 

 formation, 348 

 interconversion, 382 

 utilization, 354, 355, 384-385 

 pyrimidine methyl groups and, 324 

 Folinic acid, mitochondria and, 222 

 Formaldehyde, 

 carboxamide formation and, 288 

 Feulgen reaction and, 74 

 hypoxanthine synthesis and, 281 

 methyl green and, 203 

 pentose synthesis and, 265-266 

 Formalin, 

 deoxyribonuclease and, 82 

 dye binding and, 58, 59 

 Feulgen reaction and, 69, 70 

 use as fixative, 90 

 Formate, 

 deoxyribose and, 271 

 enzymic exchange of, 291-292 

 formation, 



allantoin and, 279 

 serine and, 280 

 incorporation of, 196-197, 351, 358-360, 

 361-363, 365, 366, 369-370, 373, 381, 

 382, 385, 392, 405, 407, 410, 499, 

 501, 505 

 cell fractions and, 497 

 drugs and, 378 

 tumors and, 397-398 

 inosinic acid synthesis and, 289, 333, 335 

 purine synthesis and, 281, 284, 285, 286, 

 288, 295, 348, 376-377, 402-403, 494 

 pyrimidine and, 324 

 methyl groups, 324 

 synthesis, 297, 408 

 ribose synthesis and, 265, 274 

 thymidine sj^nthesis and, 337-338 

 uracil catabolism and, 428 

 uric acid synthesis and, 279-280 

 4-Formylamino-5-imidazolecarboxamide, 

 purines and, 287 



