LOEB, Leo (1869 – 1959)
1869 – 1959
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1901 CE
#2624.1
On transplantation of tumours.
Loeb successfully transplanted cystic sarcoma of the thyroid in rats. He established the fact that growth of the transplant occurred through proliferation of its peripheral cells.
1916 CE
#2642
Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.
Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.
1929 CE
#1138.01
Effect of hormones of anterior pituitary on thyroid gland in the guinea pig.
Loeb and Aron (No.1138.2) demonstrated the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the anterior pituitary.