Word: angiotonin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green, the child has the disease. Hope is that physicians generally will adopt the simple test. ¶Cleveland Clinic researchers headed by Dr. Irvine H. Page (TIME. Oct. 31, 1955) reported a chemical victory that may lead to better understanding and treatment of high blood pressure. They have synthesized angiotonin II, the active form of the hormone angiotonin (discovered by Page in 1939), which sends blood pressure zooming when injected. Hitherto available only in minute amounts laboriously extracted from tons of animal glands, it can now be made in quantity for intensive research...
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