Lewis Thomas and droopy rabbit ears

In 1956, Lewis Thomas discovered that injecting rabbits with a plant protease called papain caused their ears to collapse. This experiment led to the identification of the endogenous proteases that cause the tissue destruction seen in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Autor principal: Bashyam, Hema
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118519/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20412fta
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spelling pubmed-21185192008-05-26 Lewis Thomas and droopy rabbit ears Bashyam, Hema J Exp Med From the Archive In 1956, Lewis Thomas discovered that injecting rabbits with a plant protease called papain caused their ears to collapse. This experiment led to the identification of the endogenous proteases that cause the tissue destruction seen in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. The Rockefeller University Press 2007-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2118519/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20412fta Text en Copyright © 2007, The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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