INDEX. 



ABIURBT products, food value of, 35, 36, 37, 



3.8, 39- 

 Absorption, from stomach 7 ; from intestine, 



9, 24, 51; of undigested protein, 12; 



rate of, 20. 



Acids, influence of, on autolysis, 106. 

 Acidosis in fasting, 97. 

 Activity hypertrophy, 80. 

 Adrenaline, synthesis of, 76. 

 Aldehyde-nitrogen compounds, 118. 

 Alkaptonuria, feeding experiments in, 73 ; 



influence of water on protein catabol- 



ism, too. 

 Amino acids, utilization of, 44, 45, 46, 53, 



54, 105 ; synthesis of, 119, 120. 

 Ammonia, fixation of, in tissues, 114; pre- 

 sence in blood, 22, 26, 27, 51 ; salts as 



protein sparers, 42, 43. 

 Anti-trypsin, 106, 107. 

 Arginine, fate of, 54. 

 Asparagine, food value of, 41. 

 Autolysis, 106. 



BACTERIAL, deaminization, 55 ; formation of 

 protein, 41, 42. 



Blood, presence of amino acids, 20, 21, 23, 

 24 ; of ammonia, 22, 26, 27, 51 ; of 

 proteoses, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24 ; of non- 

 coagulable protein, 17 ; of urea, 22 ; 

 composition during fasting, 57, 106 ; 

 formation of proteins, 82 ; dialysis, 

 21 ; presence of mucoids, 17 ; rate of 

 blood flow, 19. 



CALORIC value of abiuret products, 35 ; of 

 diets, 70. 



Carbohydrate, importance of, in protein syn- 

 thesis, ii, 14, 42,73, 115, 116, 118; 

 influence on rate of protein catabolism, 

 97, 105, 115, 117, 120; formation from 

 amino acids, 48. 

 nitrogen compounds, 118, 119. 



Caseinogen feeding, 36, 39. 



Catabolism, mode of, of amino acids, 47, 54. 



Cause of protein retention, 85. 



Chittenden standard, 69. 



Circulating protein, 90. 



Composition of tissues, influence of food on, 



56- 



Contraction of muscle, 112. 



Creatine output, 98 ; in birds, 98 ; as special 

 food, 75 ; as index of nature of protein 

 catabolized, 99 ; after water-drinking, 

 99; in glycosuria, 117; content in 



muscle after stimulation, 113; varia- 

 tion in red and white muscle, 112; in 

 autolysis, 99. 



Creatinine output, 95, 98, in. 



Cyanogen radicles in protein, 91. 



DEAMINIZATION, 26, 27, 49. 



Development, variation in composition of 

 tissues during, 61. 



Dialysis of blood, 21. 



Digestion, gastric, 5 ; formation of proteoses, 

 5 ; peptone, 6 ; amino acids, 5 ; in- 

 testinal, 8, 9, 10 ; formation of amino 

 acids 10 ; in vitro, 8, 36, 53. 



Diurnal variation in nitrogen output, 79. 



Dynamic quota of protein intake, 92. 



ENDOGENOUS metabolism, 94. 



Energy, loss on deaminization, 49 ; value ot 



abiuret products, 35 ; of diets, 70 ; 



source of energy in work, 109, no, 



in, 114. 

 Erepsin, 10. 

 Excretion of proteins into intestine, 14, 27, 



28. 



Exogenous metabolism, 94. 

 Extractives, retention of, 83. 



FACTORS influencing the protein minimum, 



68. 



Fats as protein sparers, 120. 

 Feeding experiments with low protein diet on 



animals, 70, 71. 

 Ferments present in blood after injection of 



protein material, 15, 18, 108; in 



tissues, 45, 107. 

 Fractionation of digest mixtures, 37. 



GELATINE feeding experiments, 72. 

 Gliadin feeding experiments, 56, 57. 

 Glycine, content of tissues, 62 ; synthesis, 



62, 63. 

 Glycosuria and creatine excretion, 117. 



HAEMORRHAGE, influence of, on protein 



catabolism, 101. 

 Hemielastin, 17. 

 Hippuric acid output, 62. 

 Histological evidence of protein storage, 81. 



INHIBITION of autolysis, 106. 

 Intracellular synthesis, 118. 



KETONE nitrogen compounds, no. 



