Word: livered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cadmium poisoning, which affects the liver and kidneys and painfully softens the bones, has claimed over 100 lives since its symptoms were discovered in the early 1950's. But the government appears unconcerned. Although last spring officials did move to quarantine some 300 acres of pasture land and rice paddies around the Nippon Mining Company's zinc refinery, refining goes on unabated...
...first discovery, published in 1955, was the means by which the hormone adrenaline regulates the breakdown of carbohydrates stored in the liver. He learned that adrenaline works by activating the enzyme phosphorylase. a chemical catalyst that triggers the release of energy-producing glucose. This explains how the body produces additional energy under stress. Then, in 1958, Sutherland isolated a previously unknown chemical called cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate, or cyclic AMP, that functions in an intermediary role in many hormonal processes...
...will not desert him now." ··· "Anyone who drinks as hard as I did for 15 years might have expected something like this," said Sammy Davis Jr. "This" was the fact that he had just come "very close to dying'' of an enlarged liver. Vowing that he was off the sauce for life, Sammy insisted that he had not been an alcoholic, but he allowed that he "used to drink a lot of Coke and bourbon. I would get up on the set and start drinking before breakfast. I used to put away more than Dean...
...York Democratic Congressman William F. Ryan was told by a constituent about the dangers of PCB. Checking further. Ryan found studies showing that large amounts of PCBs had been discovered in the fish and sea birds of several countries. The studies also revealed that the compounds can cause liver damage in mice and disrupt the calcium metabolism of birds, which then lay thin-shelled eggs. Alarmed by the findings, Ryan delivered a House speech on PCBs. The Department of Agriculture responded by halting the use of PCBs-but only in pesticides. Then, despite complaints from customers, Monsanto announced that...
...potassium phosphate, sodium dithionite and saponin. Clouding of the solution is a danger signal but does not specifically identify hemoglobin S. If the first round arouses suspicion, a second test, also based on Murayama's work, is performed immediately. Urea, a natural waste substance produced by the normal liver, breaks some molecular bonds in abnormal hemoglobin. When urea is added to the solution that had shown a positive reaction initially, the liquid clears quickly if hemoglobin S is present...