Intermediary Metabolism

Abstract

IN the past decade biochemists have turned more and more from analyses of the static condition of tissues to a consideration of the dynamics of tissue metabolism. This has been made possible by the availability of isotopes, both heavy and radioactive, and by the development of accurate and reliable methods of working with them. Biochemists have had to adapt the standard methods of organic syntheses to a microscale and to devise new methods for the synthesis of compounds labeled in a particular atom of the molecule. Still other methods have been discovered for the degradation of the products of metabolism . . .