Based on our 2-yr experience in teaching digestive physiology at the Osijek Faculty of Food Technology in Osijek, Croatia, this article is an attempt to improve students’ understanding of carbohydrate metabolism. The presented material is adapted from a Croatian version prepared for students of food technology attending the Digestive Physiology course in their fourth year, after the completion ...

The hydroxylysine-containing glycopeptides from collagenase-Pronase digests of bovine tendon collagen were found to have glucose and galactose as their monosaccharide components. The ratio of galactose to glucose in these glycopeptides was greater than unity and after alkaline hydrolysis both glucosylgalactosylhydroxylysine and galactosylhydroxylysine were found. In order to determine the conte...

Experimental evidence indicates that the primary maternal environmental factor that regulates feto-placental growth is substrate delivery to the placental site, which is the product of maternal substrate levels and the rate of placental-bed blood flow. Thus, maternal factors which change either substrate level or flow alter feto-placental growth rate. The best-studied substrate in human pregnan...

The repressible alkaline phosphatase of Neurospora crassu was purified from both the mycelium of a wild type strain and from the medium in which cultures of the slime mutant (which lacks the normal cell wall) had been grown. The enzyme preparations from the two sources had similar amino acid compositions, immunological properties, specific activities, thermal stabilities, and kinetic constants,...

Glycolysis is a metabolic pathway that is central to the assimilation of carbon for either respiration or fermentation and therefore is critical for the growth of all organisms. Consequently, glycolytic transcriptional regulation is important for the metabolic flexibility of pathogens in their attempts to colonize diverse niches. We investigated the transcriptional control of carbohydrate metab...