An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

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La diabetes pancreática de los perros hipofisoprivos.

Rev. Soc. argent. Biol., 6, 251-96, 1930.

Houssay’s depancreatized hypophysectomized dog. This work led to Houssay’s demonstration of the importance of the anterior pituitary in sugar metabolism. See also Endocrinology, 1931,15, 511-23.

In 1947 Houssay shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar."



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Pituitary, ENDOCRINOLOGY › Pituitary, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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