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doi: 10.1159/000360534. Epub 2014 Mar 13.Historical note: many steps led to the 'discovery' of thyroid-stimulating hormone
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Historical note: many steps led to the 'discovery' of thyroid-stimulating hormone
James Magner. Eur Thyroid J.2014 Jun.
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Finding thyroid-stimulating hormone was a process rather than a circumscribed event, and many talented persons participated over many years. Key early participants were Bennet M. Allen and Philip E. Smith who had the misfortune just prior to World War I of independently and simultaneously starting very similar experiments with tadpoles. This led to a series of back and forth publications attempting to establish priority for finding evidence of a thyrotropic factor in the anterior pituitary. Decades of work by others would be required before sophisticated biochemical techniques would bring us to our modern understanding.
Keywords: Discovery; History of science; Thyroid-stimulating hormone.
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Tadpoles as published in theAnatomical Record by Smith [2] in 1916.
Philip E. Smith, undated.
Bennet M. Allen, 1899.
John G. Pierce, undated.
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