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Loewi is a surname, and may
refer to:
Fiona Loewi,
Canadian actress Otto
Loewi,
German pharmacologist Loewy Löwe (disambiguation) This page
lists people...
- Otto
Loewi (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈløːvi] ; 3 June 1873 – 25
December 1961) was a German-born
pharmacologist and
psychobiologist who
discovered the role of acetylcholine...
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Fiona Loewi (born 1975) is a
Canadian actress. She
attended McGill University and the
London Academy of
Music and
Dramatic Art. She is
perhaps best known...
- "vagusstuff" (as
Loewi called it)
causing the
myotropic (muscle enhancing)
effects was
later identified to be
acetylcholine and norepinephrine.
Loewi won the Nobel...
- nanogram. The
concept of
neurotransmitters was
unknown until 1921, when Otto
Loewi noted that the
vagus nerve secreted a
substance that
inhibited the heart...
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Calliphora loewi is part of the
family Calliphoridae,
bottle flies and blowflies, and in the
genus Calliphora, blue
bottle flies. The
genus can be deceiving...
- self-treatment. In the 1920s, Otto
Loewi determined the
biomechanical mechanism for the
effects of
physostigmine on the body.
Loewi was
studying how
actions that...
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block at the
atrioventricular node. At this location,
neuroscientist Otto
Loewi first demonstrated that
nerves secrete substances called neurotransmitters...
- (neurotransmission) he
shared the 1936
Nobel Prize in
Physiology or
Medicine with Otto
Loewi.
Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington, London, to
Charles James Dale...
- a
reduction in the
heart rate.
Discovered in 1921 by
physiologist Otto
Loewi,
vagusstoff was the
first confirmation of
chemical synaptic transmission...
