Phosphorolysis and synthesis of glycogen in animal tissues.

,Our experiments suggest that when the blood sedimentation rate is raised, there is no alteration in the chemical structure of the proteins. A possible exception to this is the Bence-Jones protein [Devine, 1941]. Geottsch [1936] found that nephritic total globulin was immunologically different from the normal, and Alving [1936] found changes in the cystine content of total albumin in nephrosis. Hewitt [1938b] later showed that in both cases the individual fractions of globulin or albumin give normal chemical and immunological reactions, and the altered ratios are responsible for the abnormality of the plasma.