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Fuller Albright

American endocrinologist
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  • The principal glands of the female and male human endocrine systems.
    human endocrine system
    / Other causes of endocrine hypofunction

    …1942 by American clinical endocrinologist Fuller Albright. Albright and his colleagues studied a young woman who had signs of parathormone deficiency but who, unlike other patients with parathormone deficiency, did not improve after the injection of an extract prepared from parathyroid glands. Albright termed this disorder pseudohypoparathyroidism and postulated that…

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    …1942 by American clinical endocrinologist Fuller Albright. Albright and his colleagues studied a young woman who had signs of parathormone deficiency but who, unlike other patients with parathormone deficiency, did not improve after the injection of an extract prepared from parathyroid glands. Albright termed this disorder pseudohypoparathyroidism and postulated that…

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