biography
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Best, Charles H(erbert)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1978)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in West Pembroke, Maine, USA. As a research student at Toronto University he helped Sir Frederick Banting to isolate the hormone insulin (1922), used in the control of diabetes. He was head of the department of physiology at Toronto from 1929 and director of medical research from 1941. He discovered choline (a vitamin that prevents liver damage) and histaminase (the enzyme that breaks down histamine), and introduced the use of the anti-coagulant, heparin. |
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