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924 entries match Physiology & Embryology [G07 / G02.149]
1944
#532.1
In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.
First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.
1944
#1928.3
Über Konstitution und toxische Wirkung von natürlichen und neuen synthetischen insektentötenden Stoffen.
Müller introduced Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethane (DDT) as an insecticide. With H. Martin and P. Läuger. In 1948 Müller received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT…
1944
#1935
Streptomycin, a substance exhibiting antibiotic activity against Grampositive and Gram-negative bacteria.
Introduction of streptomycin. Order of authorship: Schatz, Gregory, Waksman. In 1952 Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for ingenious, systematic, and successful studies of the soil microbe…
1944
#2725
Treatment of kidney disease and hypertensive vascular disease with rice diet.
Kempner rice diet for the treatment of hypertension.
1944
#11548
The foetal circulation and cardiovascular system, and the changes that they undergo at birth.
The authors describe the first direct recording of the blood flow in an intact fetus, a fetal lamb. The authors performed this experiment cooperation with Sir Joseph Bancroft and Dr. D. H. Barron.
1945
#14284
Acetylation of sulfanilamide by liver homogenates and extracts.
Discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism. This discovery illuminated “the process by which cells make available the energy to drive their manufacturing processes” (Judson, p. 245). In 19…
1946
#1354.1
A specific sympathomimetic ergone in adrenergic nerve fibres (sympathin) and its relations to adrenaline and nor-adrenaline.
Noradrenaline shown to be the predominant transmitter of the effects of sympathetic nerve impulses. In 1970 Euler shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Katz and Axelrod "for their discoveries concernin…
1946
#2578.5
Induced mutations in bacterial viruses.
Genetic recombination in bacteriophages. In 1969 Delbrück shared the Nobel Prize with A. D. Hershey and S. E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."
1946
#255.4
Gene recombination in Escherichia coli.
Discovery of sexual processes in the reproduction of bacteria. In 1958 Lederberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tatum and Beadle (No. 254.3) "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination…
1946
#14138
Die Tänze der Bienen.
Von Frisch discovered the waggle dance, a particular figure-eight dance of honey bees by which successful foragers can communicate information with other members of their colony about the direction and distance to pat…
1947
#751.4
Enzymatic reactions in carbohydrate metabolism.
In 1947 Carl Cori and his wife Gerty Cori (1896-1957) shared the Nobel Prize (with Houssay) “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.” They are more often remembered for the Cori cycl…
1947
#1534
Sensory mechanisms of the retina: with an appendix on electroretinography.
An account of twenty years’ work on the electrical responses of the retina, a discussion of visual purple and visual violet, and an exposition of Granit’s hypothesis of colour vision. His researches have done much to …
1947
#10692
A study of nerve physiology. 2 vols.
See, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd, "Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later," Frontiers in neuoranatomy, 8 (2014) 147.
1948
#1451.1
Die funktionelle Organisation des vegetativen Nervensystems.
In 1949 Hess shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Egas Moniz in 1949 “for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.”
1948
#1929.4
A study of the adrenotropic receptors.
Described the concept of α and β adrenergic receptors in the sympathetic nervous system, and placed specific receptors into pharmacologic mechanisms.
1948 –1966
#12191
A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.
Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1949
#4508
The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.
Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…
1949
#4671.1
Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.
Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…
1949
#1583
A short history of physiology. 2nd ed.
1949
#1930
Bradykinin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor releases from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin.
Discovery of bradykinin. With W. T. Beraldo and G. Rosenfeld.
1949
#2526.1
Genetic recombinations leading to production of active bacteriophage from ultraviolet inactivated bacteriophage particles.
In 1969 Luria shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Delbrück (No. 2578.5) and A. D. Hershey (No. 256) "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."
1949
#5727
The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.
Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.
1950
#1584
The history of muscle physiology from the natural philosophers to Albrecht von Haller.
Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, Vol. 7.
1950
#2238
The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.
In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.
1950
#5016
Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1
Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.
1950
#8779
The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.
"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…
1950
#12063
The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize.
"In the summer of 1944 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, McClintock systematic studies on the mechanisms of the mosaic color patterns of maize seed and the unstable inheritance of this mosaicism.[44] She identified tw…
1951
#532.2
Fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa deposited into the Fallopian tubes.
Discovery that maturation of the sperm in the mammalian female tract is a necessary step in reproduction. This was co-discovered and called capacitation by Austin in the same year. See C.R. Austin, Observation on the …
1951
#13595
The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.
This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…
1952
#366
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
1952
#1354.2
Different forms of signalling employed by the nervous system.
In 1970 Katz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ulf von Euler and J. Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, re…
1952
#3108.2
Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.
Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”
1952
#256
Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid in growth of bacteriophage.
DNA shown to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction. In 1969 Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with S. E. Luria and M. Delbrück for "for their discoveries concerning the rep…
1952
#6882
Entwicklungsgeschichte physiologischer Probleme in Tabellenform.
1952
#13938
Rôle des cations bivalents dans l'induction du développement du prophage par les agents reducteurs.
Lwoff gave the name "prophage" to the form in which the genome of the bacteriophage is perpetuated in lysogenic bacteria. The bacteriophages produced by these bacteria, known as temperate bacteriophages, can therefore…
1953 –1956
#86.1
Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. in 10.
1953
#4435.4
Fundamental aspects of fracture treatment. [In Japanese]
First electrically-induced osteogenesis. Yasuda demonstrated that small amounts of electric current applied to bone stimulated osteogenesis at the cathode. He was also the first to describe stress generated potentials…
1953
#256.3
Molecular structure of nucleic acids. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid.
Watson and Crick shared the Nobel Prize with M. H. F. Wilkins (No. 256.4) "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." L…
1953
#256.4
Helical structure of crystalline deoxypentose nucleic acid.
In 1962 Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Crick and Watson "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living…
1953
#11200
Michael Servetus, humanist and martyr. With a bibliography of his works
1953
#13965
The transplantability of nuclei of arrested hybrid blastulae (R. pipiens female X R. catesbeiana male).
King and Briggs cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplanation performed in metazoans. The same cloning technique, using somatic cells, was later…
1954
#8928
História da fIsiologia em Portugal.
1954
#14243
In vitro experiments on the effects of mouse sarcomas 180 and 37 on the spinal and sympathetic ganglia of the chick embryo.
Discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). Order of authorship in the original publication: Levi-Montalcini, Meyer, Hamburger. In 1986 Levi-Montalcini was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and St…
1955
#13685
A small particulate component of the cytoplasm.
Palade first described the association of what were subsequently determined to ribosomes with membranes. He and Keith Porter subsequently named this structure the endoplasmic reticulum. Digital facsimile from PubMedCe…
1956
#752.4
Enzymic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid.
In 1959 Kornberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Severo Ochoa "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid." Order of authorshi…
1956
#4257
Successful homotransplantation of the human kidney between identical twins.
This was the first successful kidney transplant. The patient, both of whose own kidneys had been removed, was alive 11 months after the transplant. With Warren R. Guild. See No. 4256.1. In 1990 Joseph Murray shared th…
1957
#752.5
The nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955. In: Festschrift Arthur Stoll, pp. 35-47.
In 1955 Theorell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries relating to the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes."
1957
#7404
The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.
1957
#13594
Intravenous infusion of bone marrow in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy.
Thomas and colleagues reported the first bone marrow transplants. They described the treatment of six patients with cancers and/leukemia and one patient with multiple myeloma. Three of the patients died, two responded…
1957
#14250
3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine and 5-Hydroxytryptophan as reserpine rntagonists.
Carlsson demonstrated that dopamine was a neurotransmitter in the brain and not just a precursor for norepinephrine. Digital facsimile from nature.com at this link. In 2000 Arvid Carlsson shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…