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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BACQ, Zénon (1903 – 1983)

1903 – 1983

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1931

#1346

Studies on conditions of activity in endocrine organs. xxvi. A hormone produced by sympathetic action on smooth muscle.

CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945) BACQ, Zénon (1903 – 1983)

Cannon and Bacq suggested the name “sympathin” for a substance which they considered to be liberated into the blood stream following nerve stimulation and which acted in the same manner as sympathetic impulses. See al…