RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE NATURAL SCIENCES 165
system. In his present work the preparation of
cortin and
cortilactin is continued in order to
provide material for animal and human experiments
and for the purification and the study of
the nature of these substances.
University of Paris
Laboratory of Histology
There has been appropriated to the University
of Paris toward support of researches in endocrinology
and vitamins in the Laboratory of
Histology under the direction of Professor C.
Champy during the three-year period from January
1,1936, to December 31,1938, the amount of
?8,400. This histological laboratory for animal
experimentation in sex studies and in genetics is
at Gentilly, near Paris, and adjoins the university
student quarters. Its interests include genetics,
endocrinology, radiation, and nutrition.
Stress has been placed on two investigations: (1)
a study, from the experimental side, of secondary
sexual characteristics, using a variety of animals
and involving experiments with hormones in
relation to appearance of secondary sex Characteristics;
and (2) a study of the occurrence and
role of vitamin C in endocrine organs. There has
been developed a method for determining the
quantity of this vitamin in the different tissues
of the body, and further work is under way on
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