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US
/ˈɫoʊwi/
]
NOUN
- United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961)
How To Use Loewi In A Sentence
- Loewi continued his studies of carbohydrate metabolism, investigating among other things the conditions responsible for epinephrine hyperglycaemia. Otto Loewi - Biography
- He identified acetylcholine as a constituent of certain ergot extracts, and an analysis of its action served as a basis for later researches, extending the application of Loewi's discoveries, which have been recognized in the joint award of the Sir Henry Dale - Biography
- Frankfurt, Loewi being then in Marburg with Hans Horst Meyer, who still sustains his weight of honoured years. Sir Henry Dale - Banquet Speech
- Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the work of my colleagues has been able to give to it, can claim one practical result, in the specific, though alas only short, alleviation of the condition of myasthenia gravis, by eserine and its synthetic analogues. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
- Loewi named the substance released by the relevant nerve, called the vagus nerve, Vagusstoff; today it is known as the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. How the Mind Works: Revelations
- For all such effects of acetylcholine, directly analogous to those which Loewi discovered in relation to the heart vagus, were covered by what I had termed the "muscarine" action of acetylcholine, and were all very readily suppressed by atropine. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
- During his first years in Marburg, Loewi's studies were in the field of metabolism. Otto Loewi - Biography
