Insulin's discovery: New insights on its ninetieth birthday

Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 293-304

  Roth, Jesse ^a,b,c   Qureshi, Sana ^a   Whitford, Ian ^a   Vranic, Mladen ^d   Kahn, C Ronald ^e   Fantus, I George ^d,f   Dirks, John H ^d,g  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g Gairdner Foundation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charles Best; Connaught; Discovery of insulin; Eli Lilly; Elliott Joslin; post traumatic stress disorder; Frederick Banting; Insulin; Insulin mechanism of action; J.J.R. Macleod; James Collip; Michael Bliss; Moses Barron; Nicolae Paulescu; Nobel prize 1923; Oskar Minkowski

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ALCOHOLISM; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CANADA; DEPRESSION; DRUG RESEARCH; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS ISLET; PARANOIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUICIDE; SURGEON; SYMPTOM; WAR;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INSULIN;

EID: 84860895192     PISSN: 15207552     EISSN: 15207560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.2300     Document Type: Review

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