Abstract:In a lecture he gave in , Best (1948 stated, "We often hear the statement made that we have had insulin for 25 years and still do not know exactly how it acts. This is quite true, but we know more about the action of insulin than about any other hormone."Strangely enough, the great science of endocrinology, with its vast body of
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