Biochemical and Clinical Aspects of Pteridines. Cancer - Immunology - Metabolic Diseases / March 7–10, 1982, St. Christoph, Arlberg, Austria

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS -- CONTENTS -- 1. FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY FOR ANALYSIS AND THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF NATURALLY-OCCURRING PTERIDINES -- PROPERTIES OF NATURALLY-OCCURRING PTERIDINES / Pfleiderer, Wolfgang -- TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN BIOSYNTHESIS / Curtius, Hans-Christoph / Häusermann, Max / Niederwieser, Alois / Ghisla, Sandro -- BALANCING OF MAMMALIAN BIOPTERIN POOLS / Rembold, Heinz -- 2. QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF PTERIDINES -- AUTOMATIZED ROUTINE ESTIMATION OF NEOPTERIN IN HUMAN URINE BY HPLC ON REVERSED PHASE / Fuchs, Dietmar / Hausen, Arno / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- AUTOMATIC HPLC OF PTERINS WITH OR WITHOUT COLUMN SWITCHING / Niederwieser, A. / Staudenmann, W. / Wetzel, E. -- HPLC OF NEOPTERIN PHOSPHATES / Blau, N. / Bosshard, R. / Redweik, U. / Niederwieser, A. -- PTERIDINES AS TUMOUR MARKERS? ATTEMPT OF EVALUATION BY HPLC AND A RADIOIMMUNOASSAY FOR NEOPTERIN / Rokos, Katharina / Rokos, Hartmut / Frisius, Hildegard -- 3. PTERIDINES IN CANCER DETECTION AND MONITORING -- PTERIDINES IN URINE AND SERUM FROM CANCER PATIENTS / Dhondt, J.L. / Hayte, J.M. / Bonneterre, J. / Adenis, L. / Demaille, A. / Ardouin, P. / Farriaux, J.P. -- SIGNIFICANCE OF URINARY NEOPTERIN IN GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS: ONCOLOGY, PREGNANCY, AMNIOTIC FLUID / Bichler, Alfred / Hetzel, Heinz / Marth, Christian / Fuchs, Dietmar / Hausen, Arno / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- URINARY NEOPTERIN EUALUATION IN MALIGNANT DISEASES IN CHILDHOOD / Kostron-Krainz, Christa / Fuchs, Dietmar / Hausen, Arno / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- NEOPTERIN ESTIMATIONS IN BENIGN AND MALIGNANT HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS WITH TUMOR STAGING AND REMISSIONS / Grünewald, Kurt / Huber, Heinz / Fuchs, Dietmar / Hausen, Arno / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- URINARY NEOPTERIN IN PATIENTS WITH HEAD AND NECK CANCER / Reibnegger, G. / Fuchs, D. / Hausen, A. / Wächter, H. / Bichler, E. / Böheim, K. -- A PTERIDINE BINDING VARIANT OF ALPHA^-AC ID GLYCOPROTEIN, ACCUMULATED IN THE BLOOD OF PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT DISEASES / Ziegle, Irmgard / Maier, Konrad / Armarego, Wulf / Fink, Michael -- 4.PTERIDINES IN IMMUNOLOGY -- PTERIDINES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION / Huber, Christoph / Margreiter, Raimund / Spielberger, Martin / Fuchs, Dietmar / Hausen, Arno / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- PTERIDINES AS A NEW MARKER FOR THE PREDICTION OF HUMAN ALLOGRAFT REJECTION / Margreiter, R. / Spielberger, M. / Fuchs, D. / Hausen, A. / Reibnegger, G. / Wächter, H. / Huber, Ch. -- BLOOD LEVELS OF BIOPTERIN AND AGPM DURING KIDNEY AND BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION / Fink, Michael / Jehn, Ulrich / Wilmanns, Wolfgang / Ziegler, Irmgard -- 5. PTERIDINES IN PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION -- PTERIDINES RELEASED FROM DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM CELLS INTO THE EXTRACELLULAR MEDIUM / Gerisch, Günther / Blank, Gertraud / Schweiger, Manfred / Fuchs, Dietmar / Hausen, Arno / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- PTERIDINES DÜRING GRCWTH AND DIFEEIENTIATION OF PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM / Loidl, Peter / Fuchs, Dietmar / Gröbner, Peter / Hausen, Amo / Reibnegger, Gilbert / Wächter, Helmut -- BIOPTER IN IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD CELLS AS AN INDICATOR FOR TRANSPLANTATION INDUCED HEMOPOIESIS IN BEAGLE DOGS AND FOR LEUKEMIC PROLIFERATION / Ziegler, Irmgard / Fink, Michael / Wilmanns, Wolfgang / Kolb, Hans-Jochen / Bodenberger, Ulrich -- IMPORTANCE OF PTERIDINES FOR REGULATION OF GROWTH / Wachter, H. / Fuchs, D. / Hausen, A. / Reibnegger, G. -- 6. PTERIDINES IN METABOLIC DISEASES -- ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE: THERAPEUTIC TRIALS WITH TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN / Curtius, H.-Ch. / Mtildner, H. / Niederwieser, A. -- SCREENING FOR TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN DEFICIENCY / Niederwieser, A. / Matasovic, A. / Staudenmann, W. / Wang, M. / Curtius, H.-Ch. -- TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN MONOTHERAPY IN TWO SIBLINGS WITH DIHYDROBIOPTERIN DEFICIENCY / Leupold, D. / Wang, M. / Niederwieser, A. -- RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHENYLALANINE AND BIOPTERIN METABOLISMS / Dhondt, J.L. / Farriaux, J.P. -- SERUM PTERIDINES IN PATIENTS ON CHRONIC HAEMODIALYSIS / Dhondt, J.L. / Vanhille, Ph. -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX -- Backmatter