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Whale liver is the source of a number of vitamins (A, B 1
, B 2 ,
etc.) and of MZh campolon (an anti-anaemia preparation).
In the most
modern Soviet factory-ships, Vladivostok and Darnii Vostok, technical
production lines operate successfully to produce vitamin A in oil by the
method of mild alkali hydrolysis of whale liver, with subsequent extraction
of vitamin A with refined whale oil,
Among the endocrine glands, products are obtained from the hypophysis,
the pancreas, the spleen, the adrenal glands, and others.
Insulin is derived from the pancreas. The pancreatic juice
extracted from the gland is used in the food industry for processing
meat.
A softening agent used in the leather industry is also obtained
from the pancreas.
. The adrenal glands of whales are a source of a medicinal preparation
of cortin.
The hypophysis contains a number of hormones, but it is chiefly
used as a source of the adrenocorticotropic hormone ACTH, which is used
in the treatment of a number of ailments, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
A. preparation for the treatment of myasthenia (muscle weakness)
ia derived from the thymus of embryos and young whales.
The brain of whales contains a large quantity of lipoids, which
-serve as a source of cholesterin and technical leclthin.
Heparin with higher biological activity than that obtained from
faim animals is extracted from the mucous membrane of whales' stomachs.
Heparin slows blood-clotting, has a hypotensive effect, dilates the
coronary arteries, and also prevents the development of degenerative
changes in the cardiovascular system in cases of atherosclerosis.
Meat-meal for animal food, which contains not less than q5 ,;.;.-80 ,7,
of protein, not more than
of oil, and less than 12% of moisture,
is used as a supplement to the food of farm animals..
Graksa-meal contains from 50) .
to 75'f, of -protein matter, about
5% or 6% of oil, and 25%-30% of various minerals. Its food value is
almost the same as that of meat-meal. When th E:
amount of foreign matter
mixed with it is as much as 0.2 grams per kg of meal, it is used only
as poultry food.
Blubber-meal, which is made from the residues after blubber is -
,
processed in the vacuuu-ay)E.ratuses, contains up to g',5 of protein, but
has rather less food value than. meat-meal. It also is used as animal
food.