Renewed interest has developed in the status of the pancreatic islets, following the availability of purified growth hormone preparations. In the Fall of 1953 it was observed that the alloxan-diabetic rats receiving purified growth hormone, showed a considerable reduction in blood sugar, as compared with the control animals. This attracted the interest of our Director Dr. D.R. Webster, who envisaged the possibility of investigating the insulotropic effect of growth hormone, and its possible role in the etiology of islet cell tumour. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109665 |
| Date | January 1954 |
| Creators | Kapur, Kanwal K. |
| Contributors | Skoryna, S. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Experimental Surgery.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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