"Adventures and Excursions in Bioassay: The Stepping Stones to Prostacyclin." Reimpression de Les Prix Nobel en 1982 (photocopy). SIGNED BY JOHN VANE.

VANE, John R.

Verlag: Printed in Sweden, Norstedts Tryckeri, Stockholm, Nobel Foundation, 1987.

Beschreibung

Frontispiece, pp. 177-206. Original wrappers. Very Good. IMPORTANT NOTE: Photocopy of the offprint of John Vane's Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1982. How do I know it is not a photocopy, and not an original? Just looking at it, it is obviously a photocopy. In addition to its photocopy appearance, it is a smaller format than an original offprint of a Nobel Lecture from this period (see photo showing Vane side by side with an offprint of the Levi-Montalcini Nobel Lecture). Also, the color is not quite the same as in an original offprint and the rear wrapper does not have any printing on it (see photo), whereas an original offprint has "Printed in Sweden" with the publisher's imprint, at the bottom of the rear wrapper. Nevertheless, this photocopy is SIGNED BY JOHN VANE (on front wrapper, see photos). The question is: did Vane prepare this photocopy for distribution after he exhausted his supply of original copies? My guess is that he did, but I do not know that for a fact. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982 was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances." "Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances that govern several important processes in the body. They also come into play when the body is under attack. In 1971 John Vane showed that acetylsalicylic acid, a substance found in pain-relieving and fever-reducing medications like aspirin, works by inhibiting the formation of prostaglandins. In 1976 he discovered the prostacyclin prostaglandin, which expands the smallest blood vessels and, unlike certain other prostaglandins, inhibits the formation of blood particles called platelets that cause blood to coagulate" (Nobel Prize website). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16421

Bibliografische Details

Titel: "Adventures and Excursions in Bioassay: The ...

Verlag: Printed in Sweden, Norstedts Tryckeri, Stockholm, Nobel Foundation, 1987.

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)