Word: steroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huang has been working on steroid research with Louis F. Floser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and hopes to complete the project before leaving...
...artificial steroid hormones, made by Schering Corp., show great promise against rheumatoid arthritis. Named metacortandralone and metacortandracin, they are two to four times as powerful as cortisone and hydrocortisone and seem to produce fewer undesirable side effects. They may be generally available next summer...
...sense into it." This method led him, by 1945, to the isolation of coenzyme A, one of the most important trigger chemicals in the body. Dr. Lipmann has shown that his coenzyme is a factor in the body's production of vital substances such as fatty acids and steroid hormones. Some researchers hope that it may help to track down the cause of cancer, but Dr. Lipmann says modestly: "Our type of people really don't think much about practical things...
Then, said Dr. Clarke, it was found that the low steroid levels marked the patients who were depressed, apathetic and withdrawn. The near-normals were alert, cooperative and interested in their surroundings. The above-normals were ridden with conflicts and anxiety and often showed such other signs as fast heartbeat, quick changes in blood pressure and sweating of the palms...
...adrenals pour out extra steroid hormones in times of stress or anger. How this can work to bring the depressed patient's steroid output up to normal was described by Dr. Clarke in case histories...