Recent Investigations on the Aerobic and An-aerobic Metabolism of Carbohydrates

I believe it would be in accordance with the wishes of our mourned colleague if I developed here the idea set forth in my book Chemical dynamics of life ph~enomena, and add to it from more recent work. At the wish of Jacques Loeb, this book was published as one of his series of monographs (1). These studies confirm the unity of chemical processes throughout the organic world, a unity which Loeb, in hts pioneer researches, brought always afresh to light. The American reader will, at the same time, be told the state of research in our laboratory. This will give him the opportunity to take into account both the work already published on this subject, and that which is still under way. All these investigations are connected with the problem of energy transformation in muscle, which, to begin with, we should review briefly.