Date of Award

1-1963

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Medical

First Advisor

Howard M. Klitgaard

Second Advisor

Alvin f. Rieck

Abstract

Kripke and Bever (’56) suggested that the thyroid hormones act in increasing tissue metabolism on succinic dehydrogenase by protecting the sulphydryl groups, essential for enzymatic activity, from oxidation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of thyroxine on succinic dehydrogenase activity and deter¬ mine if this enzyme was the factor in the control cellular respiration rate. A modified tetrazolium technique of Shelton('57) was employed in which the assay of the enzyme could be expressed on a quantitative basis by using tissue homogenates.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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