An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

LOEWI, Otto

4 entries
  • 3644

Ueber eine neue Funktion des Pankreas und ihre Beziehung zum Diabetes mellitus.

Arch. exp. path. Pharmak., 59, 83-94, 1908.

Loewi’s pancreatic function test.



Subjects: HEPATOLOGY › Tests for Pancreatic Function
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Ueber humorale Uebertragbarkeit der Herznervenwirkung.

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol. 189, 239-42; 193, 201-13; 203, 408-12; 204, 361-67, 629-40, 19211922, 1924.

Loewi’s important experiments firmly established the theory of chemical intermediaries in nervous reactions. He shared the Nobel Prize for physiology with Dale in 1936.



Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Chemical Mediation of Nervous Impulses
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Ueber humorale Uebertragbarkeit der Herznervenwirkung

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 206, 123-40; 214, 678-96, 1924, 1926.

Established the presence of cholinesterase and that in vitro eserine inhibited this esterase.



Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Chemical Mediation of Nervous Impulses
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Quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen über den Sympathicusstoff*. Zugleich XIV. Mitteilung über humorale Übertragung der Herznervenwirkung Ausgeführt mit Unterstützung der -Stiftung.

Pflügers Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie, 237, Band 4, 504-514, 1936.

In this paper Loewi proved that the cardioexcitatory neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nerves is adrenaline, or actually noradrenaline.



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology, Neurophysiology