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

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, 1921 – 1922, 1924.

Loewi’s important experiments firmly established the theory of chemical intermediaries in nervous reactions.

In 1936 Loewi shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dale "for discoveries related to chemical neurotransmission."



Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Chemical Mediation of Nervous Impulses, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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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