Sutherland, Earl Wilbur

Sutherland, Earl Wilbur

American pharmacologist and physiologist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1971 for isolation of CYCLIC AMP. With T.W. Rall, Sutherland discovered that hormones such as ADRENALINE act on their target cells by causing an increase in cyclic AMP

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