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loewi

/ˈloʊ.i/

Traducción: Apellido propio, asociado a Otto Loewi, farmacólogo estadounidense de origen alemán que demostró que la acetilcolina se libera en la unión entre el nervio parasimpático y el músculo.

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formalcommonmedical/ˈloʊ.i/

incontable · nombre propio

A proper noun referring to Otto Loewi, a German-born American pharmacologist who demonstrated that acetylcholine is released at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle.

  • 🇪🇸Apellido propio, asociado a Otto Loewi, farmacólogo estadounidense de origen alemán que demostró que la acetilcolina se libera en la unión entre el nervio parasimpático y el músculo.
  1. Otto Loewi C2 formal

    A German-born American pharmacologist who demonstrated that acetylcholine is released at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle, a key discovery in neuroscience.

    • Otto Loewi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on chemical neurotransmission.
    • Loewi's experiment with frog hearts proved that nerves communicate via chemical substances.
    • The discovery by Loewi laid the foundation for modern neuropharmacology.

    🇪🇸Otto Loewi