Role of the pituitary in sugar metabolism
Papel de la hipófisis en el metabolismo del azúcar
- Date
- 1930 · confidence high
- Place
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Credited to
- Bernardo Houssay
- People
- 👤 Bernardo Alberto Houssay1887–1971
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Houssay and Biasotti showed that removing the pituitary gland improves diabetes in pancreatectomised dogs: the anterior pituitary produces hormones that raise blood glucose. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947, the first for Latin America in the sciences.
What it led to
- endocrinology of the pituitary-pancreas axis
- the Argentine physiological school (Leloir, Braun-Menéndez)