Word: angiotensin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baldwin were hooked up last week provides such a change. A pump sends a continuous infusion into an artery in each subject's left arm. In the infused fluid is an infinitesimal amount-1/90,000 oz. per day-of a mysterious and immensely potent substance called angiotensin. Explained Dr. Frederic C. Bartter, head of NIH's hormone studies: "We know that a lot of angiotensin raises the blood pressure and causes salt retention. What we need to know is whether an increase so small that it does not raise the blood pressure will nonetheless cause salt retention...
Colds from Monkeys. The angiotensin study is one of about 100 projects, under the center's associate director, Dr. Clifton K. Himmelsbach, employing volunteers in normal health. The center also has a list of 300 projects for the study of various diseases. Because the 14-story Clinical Center is designed for research, less than half its sprawling space goes for patients' rooms, while more than half of it goes for laboratories...