Word: electrocortin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preceding Reeve in a similar drip test was 20-year-old Arthur Birk (Brethren) of Teegarden, Ind. As soon as the doctors had learned what they could about the effect of ACTH on his adrenals' output of electrocortin, they put him on a salt-free diet. All he had to do was to promise not to take any food or drink away from the center. He could work on its house newspaper or play golf or go into Bethesda for the movies. But it was no snap: he lost 15 pounds in a week...
Meanwhile, before last week's sessions broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in the body's balances. Dr. Hench called electrocortin "the biggest thing" of the congress, but neither he nor Dr. Reichstein would prophesy as to its therapeutic possibilities. Whatever its potentialities in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases, electrocortin will probably not be available in large quantities for some...
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