Agustín Domingo Marenzi Bula, Argentine biochemist and pharmacist (Buenos Aires 20 December 1900 - 1967)
Authored 265 publications
Adapted Pulfrich photometer to a number of quantitative techniques
Established that sulfoconjugation process is found in almost all organs and mainly in small intestine (1933-4)
DEVELOPED METHODS/TECHNIQUES
With R. Gerschman developed Gerschman-Marenzi method for studying changes in blood potassium concentration under distinct physiopathological conditions in Anales Farm. Bioquim. 3:107-11, 1932
Developed a new procedure for determination of choline
With C. E. Cardini. The colorimetric determination of choline. J. Biol. Chem. 147:363, 1943
Folin-Marenzi method and uric acid reagent
With O. Folin. An improved colorimetric method for the determination of cystine in proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 83:103-8, 1929
Microméthode permettant de déterminer la cystine des protéines. Comp. Rend. Soc. Biol. 104:405-7, 1930
With C.J. Gómez. A new simple and colorimetric method for the determination of fibrinogen. Bull. Soc. Chem. Biol. 33(3-4):409-12, 1951
With E.C. Cardini. Colorimetric micromethod for determining total and unsaturated fat acids of blood. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 19:118-30, 1930
Marenzi-Banfi technique for determination of sulphates
Marenzi-Moglia-Villalonga technique for total proteins (1946)
Marenzi-Bragger colorimetric method for ketosteroids (1949)
Marenzi method for determination of total phenols (modification of Theis-Benedict method)
Modified Briggs method for determination of magnesium (1939)
Modified McCarthy-Sullivan method for determination of methionine
Modified Wintrobe technique for globular volume