• Tadeusz Reichstein (20 July 1897 - 1 August 1996), also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone. (wikipedia.org)
  • Together with Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for their work on hormones of the adrenal cortex which culminated in the isolation of cortisone. (wikipedia.org)
  • He shared with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the hormones of the adrenal gland cortex. (keywen.com)
  • In 1950 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Tadeus Reichstein and Philip Showalter Hench for 'for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects. (utoronto.ca)
  • Antithyroid medicine and radioactive iodine can treat benign nodules that are causing your thyroid gland to make too many hormones (hyperthyroidism). (keywen.com)
  • At the Mayo Clinic, Hench and his colleagues studied the role of the adrenal gland in regulating the body's response to stress. (observervoice.com)
  • The gland consists of numerous cell types, which specialize in making and releasing specific hormones. (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com)
  • Together with Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein, they conducted experiments that helped them discover adrenal cortex hormones, their structure, and their effects between 1948 and 1949. (observervoice.com)
  • In the 1930s, they discovered that the adrenal cortex produced a hormone called cortisone that was effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disease. (observervoice.com)
  • Hench's work on cortisone also helped establish the field of endocrinology, and he became a leading figure in the study of hormones and their effects on the body. (observervoice.com)
  • Hypothyroidism is treated with medicine to supply the body with the thyroid hormones it needs to function right. (keywen.com)
  • Medullary epinephrine was the first hormone to be isolated (in 1901), and numerous cortical steroids were isolated between 1930 and 1949. (nih.gov)
  • With his co-workers, Reichstein accomplished the first isolation of four active hormones from the adrenal cortex, the first synthesis of one of them, the proof of the steroid nature of said hormones, and numerous details on the structure and properties of these important bodies. (todayinsci.com)
  • Adrenal functions were inferred from the adrenal insufficiency syndrome described by Addison and from the obesity and virilization that accompanied many adrenal malignancies, but early physiologists sometimes confused the roles of the cortex and medulla. (nih.gov)
  • The therapeutic dose, however, when used as an anti-inflammatory drug, is much larger than the amount normally present in the body, and the minor functions of the hormone become exaggerated, leading to edema (swelling), increased gastric acidity, and imbalances in metabolism of sodium, potassium, and nitrogen. (britannica.com)
  • The adrenal is a small, anatomically unimposing structure that escaped scientific notice until 1564 and whose existence was doubted by many until the 18th century. (nih.gov)