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2 unusual facts about cortisone


Cortizone

Cortisone (C21H28O5), a hormone

Jamie McGinn

Cortisone, rehab, and major surgery in the summer of 2008 helped alleviate the pain, though the lingering effects still plague Mcginn, especially due to his high-pace playing style.


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1963 Chicago Bears season

Tittle came back in the third period, but he needed cortisone, Novocain, and heavy taping and bandaging just to continue.

Bigger Than Life

Bigger Than Life is an American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope film made in 1956 directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, who also co-wrote and produced the film, about a school teacher and family man whose life spins out of control upon becoming addicted to cortisone.

Lewis Hastings Sarett

He invented a Process of Treating Pregnene Compounds Cortisone, Patent Number 2,462,133.

Maneb

Maneb interferes with glucocorticoid metabolism by inhibiting the activity of the enzyme 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 which converts cortisol to cortisone.

Menachem Lewin

In this study, processes were developed for producing various chemicals from the waste left over after producing sisal fibers; namely, the hecogenin used to produce steroidal drugs, a process originally developed and patented for cortisone production by Cornforth and Callow in the 1950s for Glaxo.


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