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INDEX 



"Pure" diets, 142. 

 Purine bases, 7. 

 Putrefaction, fate of argin- 



ine in, 44. 

 fate of histidine in, 42, 



43. 



fate of leucine in, 42. 

 fate of tryptophane in, 39. 

 fate of tyrosine in, 38. 

 formation of ammonia in, 



39. 



hydroxy acids in, 38. 

 nature of, 36. 

 products of intestinal, 38. 

 proteoses and peptones in, 



37. 



Putrescine, 43, 117. 

 Pyrimidine bases, 7. 



Rate of blood flow, 73. 

 Relationship of different 



amino acids, 19. 

 "Residual nitrogen" of 



blood, 74. 

 Respiratory foods, 84. 



Salmin, 6. 

 Scombin, <?. 

 Scombron, 6. 

 Serine, 15. 

 amounts of, in proteins, 



22, 23. 

 dextrose formation from, 



112. 

 Seromucoid, 61. 



Simple proteins, 4, 5. 



Skatole, 39. 



Specific dynamic action, 90, 



120. 

 Starvation, amino acids in 



blood during, 78. 

 Structure of protein mole- 

 cule, 24. 



Stunting, 144, 149, 150. 

 influence of milk food 



upon, 150. 

 Sturin, 6. 

 Survival period, influence 



of zein upon, 139, 140, 



141. 

 Synthesis of amino acids, 



107. 



Theories of fate of in- 

 gested protein, 58. 

 Theories of protein metab- 

 olism, 81. 



Theories of protein regen- 

 eration, 62. 

 Transformations of amino 



acids in body, 99. 

 Tryptophane, 18. 

 absence of, in certain pro- 

 teins, 24, 137. 

 amounts of, in proteins, 



22, 23. 



catabolism of, 106. 

 importance of, for life, 



141. 



importance of, in nutri- 

 tion, 130. 



