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- Loewi is a surname, and may refer to: Fiona Loewi (born 1975), Canadian actress Otto Loewi (1873–1961), German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist...
- Otto Loewi (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈløːvi] ; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine...
- Fiona Loewi (born 1975) is a Canadian actress. She attended McGill University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is perhaps best known...
- Erik von Loewis (1904–1986) was a German stage actor and director. He also acted in film and television. Born in Estonia, he was of Baltic German heritage...
- Tillmann as Baron von Pleskau Alice Treff as Baroness von S****endorf Erik von Loewis as Baron Valepp Susanne von Alm****y as Frau Stevens Eva Bubat as Gertrud...
- a reduction in the heart rate. Discovered in 1921 by physiologist Otto Loewi, vagusstoff was the first confirmation of chemical synaptic transmission...
- "vagusstuff" (as Loewi called it) causing the myotropic (muscle enhancing) effects was later identified to be acetylcholine and norepinephrine. Loewi won the Nobel...
- doctors Rudolf Virchow, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Karl Landsteiner and Otto Loewi made notable contributions. In the United Kingdom, Alexander Fleming, Joseph...
- nanogram. The concept of neurotransmitters was unknown until 1921, when Otto Loewi noted that the vagus nerve secreted a substance that inhibited the heart...
- Otto Loewi confirmed that neurons can communicate by releasing chemicals. Through a series of experiments involving the vagus nerves of frogs, Loewi was...