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Dark-adapted Astyanax exposed to light at 5 ft-c schooled in about 15 sec during the day, but only after a lapse of about 6 min at night. This behavioral rhythm was closely synchronized with the natural diel cycle and was correlated with a retinomotor rhythm. At night the retina was histologically dark-adapted. During the day it was in an intermediate condition with the rods and cones, on the average, near their light-adapted positions. The pigment was in part concentrated near the basal cell layer as in the dark-adapted retina. The remainder was extended as in the light-adapted retina but did not form a dense light-occluding band proximal to the rod ellipsoids.

A computer model representing the pentose cycle, the tricarboxylic acid cycle and glycolysis in slices of lactating rat mammary glands has been constructed. This model is based primarily on the studies, with radioactive chemicals, of Abraham & Chaikoff (1959) [although some of the discrepant data of Katz & Wals (1972) could be accommodated by changing one enzyme activity]. Data obtained by using [1-(14)C]-, [6-(14)C]- and [3,4-(14)C]-glucose were simulated, as well as data obtained by using unlabelled glucose (for which some new experimental data are presented). Much past work on the pentose cycle has been mainly concerned with the division of glucose flow between the pentose cycle and glycolysis, and has relied on the assumption that the system is in steady state (both labelled and unlabelled). This assumption may not apply to lactating rat mammary glands, since the model shows that the percentage flow through the shunt progressively decreased for the first 2h of a 3h experiment, and we were unable to construct a completely steady-state model. The model allows examination of many quantitative features of the system, especially the amount of material passing through key enzymes, some of which appear to be regulated by NADP(+) concentrations as proposed by McLean (1960). Supplementary information for this paper has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50023 at the British Museum (Lending Division) (formerly the National Lending Library for Science and Technology), Boston Spa, Yorks. LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem. J. (1973) 131, 5.