Physiological chemistry

H. A. Harper, Preview of Physiological Chemistry, Lange Medical Pubheations, Los Altos, Calif., 1975. 

OserBL. 1965. Hawk s physiological chemistry. 14th ed. New York, NY Blackiston Division, 1051-1056. 

The authors and publisher are pleased to present the twenty-sixth edition of Harper s Illustrated Biochemistry. Review of Physiological Chemistry was first published in 1939 and revised in 1944, and it quickly gained a wide readership. In 1951, the third edition appeared with Harold A. Harper, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco, as author. Dr. Harper remained the sole author until the ninth edition and co-authored eight subsequent editions. Peter Mayes and Victor Rodwell have been authors since the tenth edition, Daryl Granner since the twentieth edition, and Rob Murray since the twenty-first edition. Because of the increasing complexity of biochemical knowledge, they have added co-authors in recent editions. 

Hammarsten, Textbook of Physiological Chemistry, translation of 7th Edition, 619 (John Wiley, 1911). 

P.C. van der Vliet—Department for Physiological Chemistry, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands... 

F. H, Bruns, Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical Academy, Diisseldorf, Germany... 

M. Sarnecka-Keller, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Medical Academy, Cracow, Poland... 

I. Tasaki and P. M. Byrne. Optical changes during nerve excitation interpretation on the basis of rapid structural changes in the superficial gel layer of nerve fiber. Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR, 26 101-110, 1994. 

In order to make sense of this vague statement, let me remind the reader that in 1917 McCollum had moved to John Hopkins in Baltimore. Osborne spent his entire professional career at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station while Mendel had been a faculty member of the Sheffield School of Physiological Chemistry at Yale University. Their joint publications always recognized the two institutions but somehow, over the years, it was Yale that appeared to be the spawning ground of their nutritional researches and discoveries. 

Coulometry is an electrolytic method of analysis. In general, electrolytic methods have limited applications in analytical biochemistry but they are useful in the analysis of substances which, while not strictly biochemical, are often important in biological and physiological chemistry. 

During the decade of 1920-1929, no Americans were honored in chemistry, physiology, or medicine, but the Nobel prize in physics went to Robert Milliken in 1923 and to Arthur Compton (with the Englishman Charles Wilson) in 1927. Thereafter, U.S. scientists would receive about one of every three Nobel prizes in physiology, chemistry and medicine combined. The vitality of U.S. science was also found in the production of Ph.D. s in chemistry from 1921 to 1930. During this... 

Philipps University Marburg Institute of Physiologic Chemistry Marburg, Germany... 

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY IN, AND FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON... 

It has been decided as a general scheme that the volumes first issued shall deal with the pure chemistry of physiological products and with certain general aspects of the subject. Subsequent monographs will be devoted to such questions as the chemistry of special tissues and particular aspects of metabolism. So the series, if continued, will proceed from physiological chemistry to what may be now more properly termed chemical physiology. This will depend upon the success which the first series achieves, and upon the divisions of the subject which may be of interest at the time. 

Alexandre Mareet, 1770-1822. Swiss physician and chemist. Lecturer on chemistry at Guy s Hospital, London. Friend of Berzelius, Wollaston, and Tennant. He carried out a number of researches in physiological chemistry. In collaboration with Berzelius he studied the properties of carbon disulfide. 

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