The Effect of Light on the Level of Reduced Glutathione in Retinal Homogenates*

Organic Polarography

“…The method has followed the changes in thiol groups in bovine retinal homogenates brought on by exposure to light (114), the radiochemical decomposition of methionine (284), and the level of nonprotein SH groups in the development of liver tumors in rats fed a carcinogenic azo dye (153). Studies are reported on the behavior of beer with and Lvithout cysteine, glutathione, ascorbic acid, and tannins at both the dropping mercury electrode and a platinum electrode (638), and on the sulfur compounds in the plant Brassica in which the behavior was compared with that of diallyl pentasulfide (269).…”