Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Insulin is a hormone secreted by the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Its function is to regulate the combustion and storage of sugar in the body. Failure of these small cellular masses causes blood sugar to increase abnormally. Withdrawal of sugar from the tissues results in hunger, weakness, loss of weight; tissue proteins and fats become converted to sugar to satisfy the body's needs, the patient is starved of carbohydrates. As a substitute for the body's insulin the patient is given injections of commercial insulin prepared from the pancreas of hogs or oxen...
...years a dispute raged between the University of Munich's Dr. Heinrich Wieland and Dr. Otto H. Warburg of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin, over the question whether cellular respiration requires iron. Dr. Warburg has maintained that it does; Dr. Wieland claimed it does not. Three years ago Dr. Wieland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry-not for cellular research, but for study of cholic acid contained in the bile. Last week Dr. Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The award was made for his studies of cell respiration which proved that...
...cortex has some relation to the sex organs. Enlargement may occur with pseudohermaphroditism (the "man"' or 'woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex). Enlargement may cause premature puberty. A tumor after puberty makes women hairy, their voices masculine. The normal cortex seems to control cellular growth throughout the body. Hence the experimental use of a blind extract to treat cancer (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. The medulla secretes epinephrine, hormone which affects blood pressure. In some way it influences the skin color and possibly muscular vigor. That is one reason why most physiologists have believed...
Aerocrete is made of Portland cement, sand and small quantities of lime, aluminum powder, soda. When poured out in thick liquid form, the presence of the aluminum powder in an alkaline solution causes a chemical reaction, liberates hydrogen, forms a cellular structure. Within a half-hour after pouring, aerocrete begins to puff up. At the end of an hour, expansion reaches its limit, the material hardens. By varying the amount of ingredients, expansion can be controlled, may vary from 50% to 150% of original volume...
...Cook went to Chicago to work on a new science he called "cellular therapy," to develop a treatment for drug addiction...