NIH: An Account of Research in Its Laboratories and Clinics

ContributorsNotes and AcknowledgmentsForeword1 Prologue2 The Early Days3 Studies on the Etiology of Schizophrenia4 Neurotransmitters and Neuropsychopharmacology5 The Neurosciences-Basic and Clinical6 Nutrition Research7 Tissue Culture I. The Tissue Culture Section, NCI II. Studies in Cell Biology, NIAID III. The Nervous System in Vitro8 Bacteriology and Mycology9 Viral Hepatitis10 Immunology-Basic and Clinical I. Introduction II. Immunoglobulin Structure and Genetics III. Genetic Control of Cellular Interactions and Specific Immune Response Genes IV. Lymphokines V. Clinical Immunology11 Organic Chemistry in a Biomedical Research Organization12 Development of Enzymology I. Early Enzymological Research II. Elucidation of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway III. Recollections About Enzymology and Amino Acid Biochemistry at NCI13 Studies on Proteins I. The Synthesis and Folding of Protein Chains II. Protein Conformation and Dynamics III. Synthesis, Semisynthesis, and Protein Function IV. Sequence Analysis V. Collagen Research VI. Muscle Research14 A Revisionist View of the Breaking of the Genetic Code15 From the Genetic Code to Beta Thalassemia16 Genetic Diseases I. Galactosemia: An Enzymological Approach II. Gout and Lesch-Nyhan Disease III. The Lipodystrophies IV. Mucopolysaccharide Storage Diseases V. Sickle Cell Disease17 Viral Oncology18 Virogenes to Oncogenes19 SV40 I. The Virus and Poliomyelitis Vaccine II. The Virus as a Model and Probe of Cellular Regulatory Processes20 Studies on Slow Virus Diseases21 Endocrinology22 Spectroscopy and Chemical Physics23 Computers in Biomedicai Research24 Cardiac Surgery25 Therapeutic Research in the National Cancer Institute26 EpilogueIndex of Names