du Vigneaud

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du Vi·gneaud

(dōō vēn′yō), Vincent 1901-1978.

American biochemist. He won a 1955 Nobel Prize for his work on pituitary hormones.

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The discrepancy of some results was solved after the elucidation of OT structure by Du Vigneaud et al.

The role of oxytocin in cardiovascular regulation

Vincent du Vigneaud and associates of Cornell University Medical College at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York.

Make pituitary hormone

At about the time that Sanger was working out the order of amino acids in the protein chains of the insulin molecule (see 1952), Vincent du Vigneaud (see 1942) was determining the exact makeup of the hormone oxytocin, produced by the posterior portion of the pituitary gland.