The Discovery of Insulin
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The Discovery of Insulin
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What is insulin?
- Insulin is a hormone created by our pancreas and helps prevent diseases such as hyperglycemia, diabetes mellitus.
The Beginning
- In 1889 it was discovered by Joseph Von Mering and Oskar Minkowski that the pancreas has the ability to control glucose metabolism
- The Found this out when Joseph and Ockar removed pancreas from dogs and it caused onset diabetes.
The Discovery
- In 1921 Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best found that if they closed of the pancreatic ducts which caused the pancreas to produce unique cells.
- Soon after the took out these cell and found that if they injected it into a dog with diabetes that is temporally cured the dog of all the symptoms.
The Product
- This eventually lead to artificially produced insulin that could be used to treat a human in 1981
