By Erlio Gurpide Ph. D. (auth.)
The goal of this monograph is to explain theoretical facets of the translation of knowledge acquired from experiments played with categorised hormones. Quantitative endocrinologic stories regarding using tracers contain the decision of charges at which hormones are secreted by means of endocrine glands and are produced outdoors those glands through conversion of different secreted hor mones. Tracer experiments also are played with the aim of measuring premiums of metabolic reactions. those measurements display the contribution of secreted hormones to the formation of circulating compounds and urinary metabolites. The estimation of charges of fetal and placental construction and alternate of hormones characterizes a category of in vivo quantitative reports played with isotopically categorised hormones (radioactive or not). In addi tion, tracers are used to degree permeability and charges of response in in vitro structures, and to review the uptake of hormones by way of tissues, either in vivo and in vitro. the soundness of the steroid nucleus wearing the isotopic label and the massive variety of reversible metabolic reactions during which steroids are concerned, either facilitated and influenced the advance of a worldly theoretical deal with ment of tracer experiments within the box of endocrinology. even though the prac tical examples used to demonstrate the techniques and calculations provided during this monograph contain classified hormones, the speculation is gifted in a normal symbolic demeanour and is acceptable to different fields of investigation.
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6 by Eq. 15) These equations indicate that the (l factors are actually given in terms of isotope ratios; measurement of specific activities is unnecessary. In fact, the simplicity of these measurements motivated the search for the correct rate equation to be assigned to such experimental values. The use of "transfer factors" in endocrinology originally appeared in studies of the irreversible metabolism of epinephrine (KOPIN, 1960). , 1963 a). 34 Infusion of Tracers at a Constant Rate It should be recalled that in Chapter 1 it was stated that all the v's in a two-pool subsystem could be calculated if PR1 , PR2 , (/12, and (/21 were known.
By definition, the material included in the rate v ~~ has, at the isotopic steady state, the same specific activity with respect to the isotope infused into pool 2 as the material in pool 2, because all of it originates in that pool. Therefore, the amount of isotope 2 transferred from pool 1 to pool 2, which equals v 12 ai, can also be expressed as v ~~ a~. Then, or " ar v 12 = 2a V12 = 2 ~21 V12 . 19) Since V~2=V~~ it follows that V~2' v~~, (and also V~l and v;~) can also be calculated from specific activities in pools 1 and 2.
Contribution Factors (~) The fraction ~12 corresponding to a two-primary-pool system has been defined in the preceding chapter (Eq. 15) as ~12=V12j(V02+V12)=V12j (V20 + 21). Since the steady state in pool 2 can be expressed by Eq. 8, viz. 18) Rates of Transfer Which Exclude Recycle In Chapter 1, the rate V12 was dissected into two component rates V~2 and v~~, which correspond, respectively, to material that has never been in pool 2 and material that is returning to pool 2. By definition, the material included in the rate v ~~ has, at the isotopic steady state, the same specific activity with respect to the isotope infused into pool 2 as the material in pool 2, because all of it originates in that pool.