History of aldosterone on its 50th birthday.
The paper describes the impact of mineralocorticoid substances on water regulation from Theophrastus (IV century B.C.) to Thomas Addison (1849). It also opens to the missed discovery of aldosterone of I.A. Macchi.
Fiore
Cristina
C
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy. cristina.fiore@unipd.it
Calò
Lorenzo A
LA
Colombo
Lorenzo
L
Grimm
Clarence E
CE
Armanini
Decio
D
D000450:Aldosterone / Q000737:chemistry / Q000266:history* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D001834:Body Water / Q000378:metabolism; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism
D000450:Aldosterone; D012964:Sodium; D011188:Potassium