Biology
Biology
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188121
Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 50.3, Problem 1EQ
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To describe: The procedure implemented by Banting and Best to obtain glucose-lowering factor produced by the pancreas.

Introduction: Frederick Banting and his student Charles Best proposed a procedure to obtain glucose lowering factor produced by the pancreas. Prior to their research work, the researchers assumed that glucose lowering factor was the enzymes released from the exocrine portion of the pancreas.

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