Nicolae Paulescu the true discoverer of insulin

Nicolae Constantin Paulescu was born on November 8th, 1869 in Bucharest and died on July 19th, 1931. He got a PhD degree in medicine and sciences in Paris and conducted a remarkable activity in physiological research, especially the study of glucide metabolism, diabetes pathogenesis, pancreas's role in nutritive intake, blood coagulation and the sudden death mechanism. In 1906 he developed an original method of hypophyseal excision in dogs, which would subsequently be applied to studies on humans. At the July 23rd session of the Biology Society held in 1921, Nicolae Paulescu presented the outcomes of four studies he had conducted on pancreas in diabetic subjects. Paulescu published his findings on the antidiabetic active principle in the pancreas, which he called pancrein, also in the Belgian magazine Archives Internationales de Physiologie in an article issued on August 31st, 1921.

These publications had come 8 months before the team made up of Canadian doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best, Scottish doctor John James MacLeod and Canadian biochemist James Collip with the Toronto University announced their discovery of insulin. However, the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine was awarded to the Toronto team. Although he vehemently contested the practices of the Canadians, Paulescu failed to be credited with discovering insulin.

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[IstorieAdevarataX]

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