AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

The work to be reported in this thesis has been restricted to the study of carbohydrate absorption. Since a number of aspects of the problem have received attention, these aspects have been dealt with in different chapters. It was thought that the subject could be more easily followed if the literature concerning each aspect was reviewed in the opening paragraphs of the separate chapters. For this reason the General Introduction will be limited to a brief description of the most common methods used in the past for the study of the intestinal absorption of carbohydrates, and following this to a consideration of the evidence quoted by Verzar in support of a phosphorylative mechanism of absorption. The plausibility of the phosphorylation theory has gained for it wider acceptance than the proof advanced would seem to warrant, and subsequent researches have been greatly influenced by this concept.