Bioassay Receptacle
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content: John Robert Vane (1927-2004) was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Swedish scientists Sune K. Bergström (1916-2004) and Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934- ) for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances. He donated this plastic superfusion bioassay receptacle to the Smithsonian, explaining that he used it to discover that aspirin inhibits the biosynthesis of prostaglandins.
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content: Ref: “John Vane, 77, Nobelist, Dies; Helped in Deciphering Aspirin,” New York Times (Nov. 23, 2004), p. B10.
topic: label: Subject
content: Nobel Prize
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0369.01
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content: 1984.0369.01
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content: 1984.0369
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content: superfusion bioassay receptacle