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Philip Pacy Cohen
Pages 34-49

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... South American institutions through his collaborative associations. Philip Pacy Cohen was born September 2S, 190S, in Derry, New Hampshire.
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... Thus, Cohen's many papers on nitrogen metabolism in animal tissues were launched with a distinguishec! investigator (Krebs later receiver!
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... number of amino acicis. It was particularly active in the reversible reactions of glutamic acid plus oxalacetic acid to oc-ketoglutaric acid plus aspartic acicI, glutamic acid plus nyruvic acid to oc 1 1 ~ ketoglutaric acid plus alanine, en c!
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... phosphate synthetase and arginosuccinate synthetase, and their activity appeared to correlate directly
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... new synthesis of ribosomal en c! soluble RNA promptly after thyroxine treatment en c!
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... Cohen and Hayano (1946) found such activity in a variety of preparations in decreasing order of activity: liver homogenates, kidney slices, kidney homogenates, and liver slices.
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... tissue proteins, amino acid requirements, intermediary metabolism, cleamination, transamination (a rather short treatment considering this was an area of special expertise for Cohen)
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... A goof! summary of his extensive work on the changes of nitrogen metabolism cluring metamorphosis of tacipoles to frogs is given by George W
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... their graduate students busily investigating respiratory processes with manometric methods. They organizer!
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... the Physiological Chemistry Stucly Section, was a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council, Advisory Committee to the clirector of NIH, en c! National Advisory Arthritis en c!
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... He also was an honorary member of the Chiba Meclical Society of Japan, the Harvey Society, the Meclical School Faculty of the University of Chile, the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico en c! the Japanese Biochemical Society.
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... graduate students resicle in the Eagle Heights housing units adjacent to Shorewooc! Hills, en c!
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... Glutamic acid as a hydrogen carrier in animal tissues. Nature 144:513.
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... Nitrogen metabolism of amino acids. In Metabolic Pathways, vol.
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... PHILIP PACY COHEN 1966 49 Biochemical aspects of metamorphosis: Transition from ammonotelism to ureotelism. Harvey Lect.


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