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Mammals are much the same. The population cycles of jack rabbits in Minnesota seem to have little to do with the food supply. When the cycle approaches its peak, rabbits begin to die in horrible convulsions, with wild leaps and running movements. Their corpses are well nourished and show no...
No less ingenious are "autotrans-plants" of a patient's organs to a different part of his own body. Kidneys have been thus transplanted at the University of Mississippi Medical Center so that they might continue working although the tube that connected them to the bladder had been damaged...
But how? Dr. Conn reasoned that a hormone must be at work, influencing especially the body's handling of salts. But nobody had identified a hormone with such precise effects. He could only guess that it was one of the many produced by the outer cortex or "bark" of...
Into the Cure Column. First patient to get the benefit of Dr. Conn's aldosterone research was no tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink...
The natural hormone works like a shotgun and often has a variety of undesirable effects, stimulating the adrenal glands, for example, to produce excesses of other body-controlling hormones. The synthetic short-chain kind offers doctors the hope that it may be used to achieve a specific result in treating...