Volume XVII of the Annual Review of Biochemistry lives up to the high quality and usefulness of the preceding books of this series. Included in this review are seven by foreign authors.
Review of this volume concerns biologic oxidations and reductions; nonoxidative enzymes; the chemistry of the carbohydrates, and the immunopolysaccharides; roentgen crystallographic studies of compounds of biochemical interest; the chemistry of the lipids, proteins and amino acids, nucleoproteins, nucleic acids and related substances; metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, protein and amino acids, and drugs and toxic substances; clinical applications of biochemistry; the biochemistry of hormones, vitamins and their clinical aspects; biochemistry of carcinogenesis; biochemistry of natural pigments, terpenes and alkaloids; photosynthesis, mineral nutrition and hormones of plants; bacterial metabolism; the chemistry of penicillin, ruminant digestion, and physiologic aspects of genetics.
The editors announce the proposed publication in 1950 of several new annual reviews in medicine, plant physiology, psychology