An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

LOEB, Leo

3 entries
  • 2624.1

On transplantation of tumours.

J. med. Res. 6, 28-38, 1901.

Loeb successfully transplanted cystic sarcoma of the thyroid in rats. He established the fact that growth of the transplant occurred through proliferation of its peripheral cells.



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER, TRANSPLANTATION
  • 2642

Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.

J. Cancer Res. 1, 1-19, 1916.

Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 1138.01

Effect of hormones of anterior pituitary on thyroid gland in the guinea pig.

Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med., 26, 860-62, 1929.

Loeb and Aron (No.1138.2) demonstrated the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the anterior pituitary.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Pituitary, ENDOCRINOLOGY › Pituitary