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IN a letter to NATURE, Laqueur, Reichstein et al.1 reported the isolation of a new crystallized compound in pure form which they named corticosterone (m.p. 180°–182° corr.) and which possesses the biological activity of the adrenal cortical hormone.
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de Fremery, Laqueur, Reichstein, Spanhoff, Uyldert, NATURE, 139, 26 (1937).
This formula was not published, but deposited in a Swiss patent filed December 1936.
Kendall, Mason, Hoehn, McKenzie, Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clinic, 12, 136 (1937).
Mason, Myers, Kendall, J. biol. Chem., 114, 613 (1936).
Kendall, Mason, Myers, Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clinic, 11, 361 (1936).
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STEIGER, M., REICHSTEIN, T. Partial Synthesis of a Crystallized Compound with the Biological Activity of the Adrenal-cortical Hormone. Nature 139, 925–926 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139925a0
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