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B Phillips

Publications and source records attributed to B Phillips.

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A male sterilization clinic.

In the Cardiff Family Planning Association Clinic 330 men have been sterilized during the past 20 months. Selection for operation was made after a detailed discussion between husband, wife, and a Family Planning Association doctor, and with the general practitioner's agreement. The outpatient operation was performed under local anaesthetic by a surgeon. It was regarded as being successful or complete when two semen analyses showed azoospermia at an interval of one month.

Anesthesia, Local↗

The use of zonal centrifugation to study membrane formation during the life cycle of mammalian cells. Synthesis of 'marker' enzymes and other components of cellular organelles.

1. The activity of enzymes characteristic of microsomes (NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and uridine diphosphatase) and of inner mitochondrial membranes (cytochrome c oxidase and succinate-cytochrome c reductase) increases during the cell cycle of P815Y neoplastic mast cells in concert with total protein. The activity of glutamate dehydrogenase, an enzyme of the mitochondrial matrix, increases in a somewhat different manner. 2. The specific activity of mitochondrial structures involved in energy-coupling measured with a fluorescent probe remains constant during the cell cycle. 3. Mitochondrial and microsomal protein increases during the cycle at the same time as total protein; nuclear protein increases rather more sharply. 4. The rate of incorporation of labelled choline or inositol into nuclear, mitochondrial or microsomal phospholipid during the cell cycle follows the rate of incorporation into total phospholipid. 5. It is concluded that the major components of cellular membranes are synthesized, like total protein or phospholipid, throughout most of the intermitotic period.

Cell Division↗

Enzyme-catalyzed reactions of the carcinogen N-hydroxy-2-fluorenylacetamide with nucleic acid.

A protein fraction obtained by gel filtration of a 105,000g supernatant of rat liver catalyzes three reactions of the hepatocarcinogen N-hydroxy-2-fluorenylacetamide with nucleic acid. Cofactor requirements and isotopic studies suggest that the reactive intermediates involved may be N-2-fluorenylhydroxylamine, and phosphate and sulfate esters of N-hydroxy-2-fluorenylacetamide.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗