Spectrophotometric studies on human sebum

Studies of Sebum. II. Some constituents of the unsaponifiable matter of human sebum.

as one of the major constituents, accounting for about 16% of the unsaponifiable matter and about 35% of the hydrocarbon fraction. Some preliminary chemical tests were made for the fatsoluble vitamins, and the presence ofa small amount of vitamin E in human sebum was reported. A more complete study of the unsaponifiable matter has now been made, and this material has been more thoroughly examin...

Studies of sebum. IV. The estimation of squalene in sebum and sebum-like materials.

Studies of sebum. VIII. Observations on the squalene and cholesterol content and the possible functions of squalene in human sebum.

The object of our investigations has been to study the composition ofsebum and to elucidate its role in maintaining the health of the skin. In a previous paper on the hydrocarbons of sebum (Boughton, Hodgson-Jones, MacKenna, Wheatley & Wormall, 1955) we observed that the squalene content of sebum showed wide variations, both in samples collected from the same subject on different occasions and ...

Spectrophotometric Studies on Intact Muscle

The concentrations of the components of the respiratory chain were determined in a variety of intact skeletal muscles by a method of spectrophotometric observation of the transmitted light. In the case of the toad sartorius, these measurements were checked against isolated mitochondrial suspensions prepared from toad skeletal muscles. The relative concentrations of the respiratory components we...

Spectrophotometric studies on lysine monooxygenase, a flavoprotein.

The spectral changes of the enzyme-hound FAD were investigated in the anaerobic and aerobic reactions of lysine monooxygenase, a flavoprotein. Under anaerobic conditions, the enzyme FAD was fully reduced with lysine via a transient intermediate having a broad absorption band in the long wavelength region. This anaerobic species was presumably involved in the dehydrogenation of lysine leading to...