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Did Nicolae Paulescu invented insulin?

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Did Nicolae Paulescu invented insulin?

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  1. Yes..

    Insulin is a natural hormone made by the pancreas. Banting received the Nobel Prize for his "discovery" even though Paulesco had published his physiological findings eight months earlier. The controversy has lasted for several decades


  2. Yes he did.He succeeded in developing an aqueous pancreatic extract which,when injected to a diabetic dog prove to have a normalizing effect on blood sugar levels.He did that in 1916, four years before Banting and Macleod.

  3. Yes.Paulescu invented insulin not Banting and Macleod!They published a paper eight months after Paulescu works were published and then received credits for someone else work.And Nobel Prize in 1923.50 years later Paulescu received recognition as the true inventor of insulin.

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