Mayo Clinic Proceedings, December 1st, 2000
The 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology was awarded to Carl Ferdinand Cori and his wife Gerty T. Cori (1896-1957) "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen." The prize was shared with an Argentinean physiologist, Bernardo A. Houssay (1987-1971), who won the prize for his discovery of the role of a pituitary hormone in the metabolism of sugar. Carl and his wife discovered the chemical reactions by which glycogen (the form in which sugar is stored in the animal body) is changed into a form of glucose that can be used by cells to produce energy. The series ...
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