Studies on Aromatic Fluorine Compounds. I. Preparations of p-Fluorobenzensulfonic Acid and Related Compounds.

Studies on Uric Acid and Related Compounds

The systematic study of the substrate specificity of mammalian xanthine oxidase has indicated a common mechanism by which various purines may be dehydrogenated (1). The results obtained also made it clear why methylated xanthines, with the exception of 1-methylxanthine (2), cannot be oxidized by xanthine oxidase to the corresponding substituted uric acids (3, 4). Therefore, another source had t...

Studies on uric acid and related compounds. I. Quantitative determination of uric acid in biological fluids.

The available methods of determination of uric acid can be divided into three main groups: (a) the direct determination of the reducing power of uric acid; (b) the coprecipitation of the uric acid or its adsorption on a precipitating material, dissolving the acid, and determination of its reducing power; and (c) quantitative decomposition of uric acid by uricase. A survey of these methods has b...

Thermochemistry of Organic Fluorine Compounds and Carbon Compounds

Rotating-bomb calorimetry was first applied to organic compounds that contain chlorine, bromine, or sulphur. Techniques developed for these classes of compounds, mostly at the University of Lund and at the Bureau of Mines in Bartlesville, have been described in the book Experimental Thermochemistry-, The development of rotating-bomb methods made accurate combustion calorimetry feasible for othe...

Pteroylglutamic acid and related compounds.

Perspectives on polyhalogenated aromatic compounds.

Mechanisms of bone invasion by squamous carcinomas of the head and neck have, been investigated using fresh tumours and established tumour cell lines in an in vitro bone resorption assay with 45Ca-labelled mouse calvaria. Fresh tumours regularly resorb bone in vitro. Activity is consistently reduced by indomethacin. The tumours release E2 prostaglandins (PGE2) in amounts sufficient to account f...