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La diabetes pancreática de los perros hipofisoprivos.
Rev. Soc. argent. Biol., 6, 251-96. 1930.
Houssay’s depancreatized hypophysectomized dog. This work led to Houssay’s demonstration of the importance of the anterior pituitary in sugar metabolism. See also Endocrinology, 1931,15, 511-23.
In 1947 Houssay shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar."
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