The Algae of Illinois
The Algae of Illinois
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伊利诺伊州的藻类
DOI：
10.2307/2422228
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发表时间：
1953
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通讯作者：
L. H. Tiffany
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作者：
P. Silva;L. H. Tiffany
作者决定不呈现主题的历史发展，可以通过与历史背景相关的更全面的来源清单来弥补。这很可能包括美国和英国以外的来源。尽管如此，该文本还是值得强烈推荐的。书名揭示了其目的和性质。这本书是为那些回避更完整、更厚重的生物化学书籍、鄙视读起来像电话簿的学科大纲的医学生而写的。简而言之，这是一本清晰且写得很好的生物化学介绍。值得尝试的是关联材料，提供临床实例，并使该主题尽可能为医学生所接受和感兴趣，同时保留少量的实验工作。第五版与第四版有很大不同。关于新陈代谢的章节已被很大程度上重写，“以便正确地看待三羧酸循环作为氨基酸、碳水化合物和脂肪常见的最终代谢途径”。其他章节也进行了修改和重写。这本书组织得很好。在碳水化合物、脂肪和蛋白质的分类以及关于酶和血液的章节之前，对一些物理化学原理进行了初步回顾，包括对胶态的深入讨论。第二部分涉及新陈代谢、维生素和激素在新陈代谢中的作用等，前面讨论了消化和吸收，并有一章介绍了同位素在生化研究中的应用。第三部分涉及营养原则以及对常见食物的性质和成分的充分处理。没有给出任何参考资料，不幸的是，当有争议的陈述未经放大而提出时，例如“用维生素[E]治疗人类肌肉萎缩症病例取得了一些成功，特别是在儿童中，尽管恢复速度比动物慢得多”（第381页）；或者，“谷氨酸对精神疾病的有益作用归因于胆碱乙酰化酶的激活”（第 192 页）。有用的教科书、专着和感兴趣的特别文章的参考书目可以在附录中找到。
The decision of the author not to present an historical development of the subject matter could have been compensated for by a more comprehensive list of sources relevant to the historical background. This might well have included other than American and English sources. Despite this, the text can be highly recommended. The title of the book reveals its purpose and nature. It is written for medical students who shun the more complete and heavier tomes of biochemistry and disdain outlines of the subject that read like telephone directories. In short, it is a clear and well-written introduction to biochemistry. Worthy attempts are made to correlate material, to provide clinical examples , and to make the subject as palatable and interesting as possible to medical students, yet conserving a modicum of experimental work. This fifth edition differs substantially from the fourth. The chapters on metabolism have been largely rewritten "in order to place the tricarboxylic acid cycle in proper perspective as the final metabolic pathway common to amino acids, carbohydrates and fats." Other chapters also have been revised and rewritten. The book is well organized. A preliminary review of some physicochemi-cal principles, encompassing a good discussion of the colloidal state, precedes classification of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins and the chapters on enzymes and blood. Part two, concerning metabolism, the role of vitamins and hormones in metabolism, etc., is preceded by a discussion of digestion and absorption and a chapter on the use of isotopes in biochemical investigation. Part three pertains to principles of nutrition and a more than adequate treatment on the nature and composition of common foods. No references are given, which is unfortunate when controversial statements are proffered without amplification, such as "the treatment of cases of human muscular dystrophy with the vitamin [E] has met with some success particularly in children, although the recovery is very much slower than with animals" (page 381); or, "the beneficial effects of glutamic acid given in mental diseases have been attributed to activation of choline acetylase" (page 192). A useful bibliography of textbooks, monographs, and special articles of interest is to be found in the appendix.