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Word: nyline (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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Research Leads. Traditionally, the brain has been supposed to require a superabundant blood supply, but the difficulty has been to determine how much. Stockholm's Dr. Gustav Nylin reported that he had injected red blood cells labeled with radioactive thorium into healthy test subjects, discovered that the major blood flow through the brain is normally much less than previously believed-and notably less than in other body tissues. A series of blood-flow readings may help in the evaluation of treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Accidents in the Brain | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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