Отправлено: 03.10.05 15:33. Заголовок: The Nobel Prize (2005)

Они достойны этой премии.

И вот как это начиналось...

The tale of Helicobacter pylori


The most publicised endeavour in recent times involved Australian gastroenterologist Barry Marshall, who consumed a broth containing the bacteria Helicobacter pylori in order to prove that this bacterium, not stress or hyperacidity, caused peptic ulcers.

Having failed to infect animal models with H. pylori, Barry Marshall used himself as the guinea pig. Snubbed by colleagues—because conventional medical wisdom said nothing could survive in the highly acidic stomach—and loathed by pharmaceutical firms, which had been selling acid blockers meant to control ulcer, Barry Marshall took this extreme step to prove his hypothesis.

Barry Marshall told Career Focus: "After a particularly frustrating time while presenting a paper [in a seminar], I decided that the way to answer the sceptics was an experiment to prove the bacterium could infect a healthy person—myself. I felt a little nauseated after I drank the broth containing a suspended culture of H. pylori. I then had some stomach rumblings for three days, followed by bloating and fullness after evening meals."

About five days after drinking the broth, Barry Marshall became ill, with early morning nausea, vomiting of acid free gastric juice, and "putrid" breath. Although his illness resolved spontaneously in two weeks, a gastric biopsy taken on the 10th day showed severe acute gastritis with many H. pylori organisms. "After that, the experiment was repeated and several publications confirmed that the hypothesis was correct," he recalls.

H. pylori infection is now recognised as the major cause of peptic ulcer disease and an important risk factor for gastric malignancy. Barry Marshall was awarded the 1995 Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award.

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 Отправлено: 04.10.05 07:37. Заголовок: Re:

Well... everybody get their kicks somehow!

 Отправлено: 04.10.05 19:40. Заголовок: Re:

Я как помолодел так и размолодею, а ник менять только столку людей сбивать.

Может у меня последний приступ молодости.

 Отправлено: 05.10.05 07:29. Заголовок: Re:

you are mersiless. no respect for your elders.

 Отправлено: 05.10.05 10:51. Заголовок: Re:

Извини, OF, в связи со сменой твоего аватара мои посты потеряли актуальность. Удалено мной.

 Отправлено: 25.10.05 19:57. Заголовок: Re:

Ромашишка

Ромашишка, а ты сама в этом уверенa , что они достойны?

 Отправлено: 25.10.05 20:19. Заголовок: Re:

Sandro,

озадачил. Наверное, ты просто пошутил, да? Уж кому как не тебе знать, что теперь язвы желудка лечатся быстро и эффективно. А то ведь раньше просто полжелудка - раз! и отсекали.