Search Details

Word: aminoacids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Stomach Cancer. Ammonia, uric acid, urea and aminoacid have recently been discovered in stomach juices. Certainly an increase of those substances is associated with cancer, and perhaps with other diseases. Dr. Lay Martin of Johns Hopkins is trying to find out, hoping that the proportions of those substances in gastric juices may help early diagnosis of stomach cancer. For some undetermined reasons cancer of the digestive tract has become more frequent recently, observed Dr. Thomas Richardson Brown of Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: College of Physicians | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

| 1 |