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

With C.E. Cardini. On the determination of the phospholipids in blood. J. Biol. Chem. (1942)

With R. Banfi. Determination of small amounts of sulphur as sulfates in biological fluids. Biochem. J. 33(11):1878-89, 1939 (Marenzi-Banfi technique for determination of sulphates)

With O. Folin. The preparation of uric acid reagente completely free from phenol reagente. J. Biol. Chem. (1929)

With O. Folin. Tyrosine and tryptophane determinations in one-tenth gram of protein. J. Biol. Chem. (1929)

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

Other Contributions

The chemical composition of connective tissue. Rev. Asoc. Med. Argent. 67(755-8):299-302, 1953

Fixation of phenols by tissues (1933)

Origin of phenols in the organism