408 Scientific Proceedings (124). 



Human Subject 





141 



0.938 



0.770 



0.168 



13-6 



0.11 



0.44 



8 gm. taurin, 3.76 gm. benzoic 

















acid 



692 



2.360 



0.888 



1.472 



14.4 



0.10 



3.56 





163 



1.220 



1.002 



0.218 



15-3 



0.09 



0.38 



TABLE II. 



The Simultaneous Administration of Sodium Benzoate and Taurin. 





Free 



Conjugated 



"Neutral 



Dose. 



Benzoic Acid, 



Benzoic Acid, 



Sulfur," 





Gm. 



Gm. 



Gm. 



Dog. 



No. 2. 









0 



0.15 



0.009 



3.76 gm., benzoic acid 



0.19 



3.36 



0.032 



3.76 gm. benzoic acid, 11.25 gm. taurin . 



0.77 



3-43 



0.013 



9.04 gm. benzoic acid, 27.0 gm. taurin . . 



2.50 



2.44 



0.010 





1.61 



2.32 



0.007 



Human Subject. 





0.04 



o.37 



0.014 



1. 51 gm. benzoic acid 



0.05 



1.50 



0.014 



1. 51 gm. benzoic acid, 4.5 gm. taurin . . . 



0.07 



i-55 



0.014 



202 (1949) 



Blood-sugar studies. 



By G. L. FOSTER. 



{From the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology of the 

 University of California, Berkeley, Cal.] 



In a recently reported study of certain blood-sugar phenomena 

 McLean and de Wesselow 1 have attempted to explain the nature 

 of the blood-sugar curve obtained after the ingestion of glucose 

 by man. As a result of the comparison of the curves of a normal 

 and of a diabetic individual they suggest that the existence of an 

 alimentary hyperglycemia in the normal awakens and stimulates 

 the glycogen-forming mechanism to such activity that not only 

 is the rising hyperglycemia checked but that the blood-sugar 

 concentration is rapidly brought down to normal or below, thus 

 accounting for the rapid rise and fall of blood sugar which is the 

 characteristic response of the normal to the ingestion of glucose. 



1 McLean, H. and de Wesselow, O. L. V., Quart. Jour. Med., 1921, xiv, 103. 



