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Insulin: Quick Facts

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Ball-and-stick molecular model of insulin, with clusters of multicolored spheres representing atoms, connected and outlined in yellow against a dark background.
Diagram showing a cross-section of a pancreatic islet of Langerhans on the left, with alpha, beta, and delta cells labeled by color, and on the right, arrows illustrating paracrine interactions among these cell types through hormones glucagon, insulin, and somatostatin.
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Nicolas C. Paulescu
Romanian physiologist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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Charles H. Best
American physiologist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
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Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
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Lydia Villa-Komaroff
American molecular biologist
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Davidson Nicol
Sierra Leonean physician and writer
J.J.R. Macleod, 1920
J.J.R. Macleod
Scottish physiologist
John Jacob Abel.
John Jacob Abel
American pharmacologist and physiological chemist

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