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The role of hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism and in diabetes: Nobel lecture delivered at Stockholm, December 12, 1947
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1947-12-12Registro en:
Houssay, Bernardo Alberto; The role of hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism and in diabetes: Nobel lecture delivered at Stockholm, December 12, 1947; The Nobel Prize Foundation; Les Prix Nobel 1947; 12-12-1947; 129-135
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Houssay, Bernardo Alberto
Resumen
The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates. These are ingested with the food or produced by the liver, and after being converted into glucose they are utilized by all the cells of the organism, specially by the muscles, which constitute nearly half the mass of the body.