Abstract
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.
MeSH terms
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Aldosterone / chemistry
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Aldosterone / history*
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Aldosterone / isolation & purification
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Aldosterone / physiology
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Body Water / metabolism
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Potassium / metabolism
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Sodium / metabolism
Substances
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Aldosterone
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Sodium
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Potassium