von Euler
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A trio of winners pioneered research into prostaglandins When Swedish Chemist Sune Bergstr�m started to do research on prostaglandin in 1947, almost nothing was known about the hormone-like substance, which had been discovered barely a decade earlier by his compatriot, Ulf S. von Euler.
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Ulf von Euler, 78, groundbreaking Swedish physiologist who in the 1930s discovered prostaglandins, the remarkable hormones used in birth control pills, and who was co-winner of the 1970 Nobel Pri/e in Physiology for his work in detecting noradrenaline, a key neurotransmitter that controls such involuntary actions as the heartbeat and the body's response to stress; of arterial disease; in Stockholm.
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Von Euler's research led to the identification of a number of so-called transmitter substances, including polypeptides, which appear to be the agents that deliver messages of pain to the brain.
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