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...first glance, the remedy for what is technically called osteoporosis (porousness of bone) seems obvious: feed the patient more calcium-rich food. This does not work, however, because in these patients calcium is poorly absorbed from food. Now, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Frederic C. Bartter of the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., has devised a promising treatment based upon adding calcium via the bloodstream...
...last week provides such a change. A pump sends a continuous infusion into an artery in each subject's left arm. In the infused fluid is an infinitesimal amount-1/90,000 oz. per day-of a mysterious and immensely potent substance called angiotensin. Explained Dr. Frederic C. Bartter, head of NIH's hormone studies: "We know that a lot of angiotensin raises the blood pressure and causes salt retention. What we need to know is whether an increase so small that it does not raise the blood pressure will nonetheless cause salt retention, and therefore help...
...Tutorial Board of the Biochemical Sciences department presents its last lecture on Tuesday at 7:30 o'clock in the main lecture room of the Biology building. Dr. Frederic Bartter will speak on "Hormones: Some of their Relations to Growth, Sex, and their Control of the Internal Environment...
...stage management is in the hands of Frederic C. Bartter '35, assisted by Richard L. Heilman '35 and Fred B. Stevens '35, Walter E. Houghton, instructor in History and Literature. Theodore Merrison, instructor in English and Frederic B. Freeman 1G., are directing the production...
...George D. Zimmerman, Reading, Pa.; Joseph A. Hindle, Providence, R.I.; George Cantor, Bennington, Vt.; Charles E. Tuttle, Jr., Rutland, Vt.; Lemuel Bowden, Jr.; Norfolk, Va.; Donald W. Davis, Jr., Williamsburg, Va.; John H. Gilbert, Milwaukee, Wis.; Lorne Rickert, Kitchener, Ont., Canada; Phillipe Dur, Toronto, Ont., Canada; Frederic C. Bartter, Baguio, Philipine Islands