Hedley Ralph Marston

8: Energy Transactions in Homeothermic Animals (1950)

Introduction

8: energy transactions in homeothermic animals (1950). Delve into the general laws of energy exchange and efficiency in homeothermic animals. This 1950 lecture explores overall energy transactions and intermediary metabolism.

Abstract

The Liversidge Research Lecture delivered November 15th, 1950. Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of New South Wales from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1950, 84, 169-183."...we shall, no doubt, occasionally catch a glimpse, however faint, of the general laws of energy exchange that operate in living material, and thus be encouraged to add to the pattern of knowledge that is already taking shape.""I propose to recall for you some of the phenomena associated with the overall energy transactions that take place under conditions of relatively constant temperature in the tissues of homeothermic animals; to seek with you to learn something of the efficiency with which these proceed; and then to view our findings in the light of what is now known of the chemical reactions of intermediary metabolism that give rise to the free energy utilized in the process of living."

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