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Glycogen Storage Diseases

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Dorothy Andersen was able to multitask in ways most of the rest of us can only envy. For example, in the 1940s while she was working on the studies I have chosen to call her “CF firsts,” she was also working on her first study of glycogen storage diseases (below) and her first study of idiopathic celiac disease (next chapter). Such an approach is akin to a juggler attempting to keep several different-sized balls in the air: it requires enormous concentration and skill.

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Notes

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    Though partners at work and co-recipients of the Nobel Prize, Gerty Cori was always paid less than her husband Carl, who also outranked her in the academic hierarchy. Incidentally, Gerty was also a prodigious smoker, like Andersen, and it is likely that the disease responsible for Cori’s death in 1958 – myelofibrosis – was in part linked to smoking.

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    Interestingly, much of the critique was given by Luther Emmett Holt, Jr. (the son of Babies Hospital’s first medical director), who also collaborated with Rustin McIntosh on revisions of L.E. Holt, Sr.’s textbook.

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    An annual series of lectures by leading biomedical researchers offered annually by the Harvey Society in New York City.

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    He spent his entire career at Babies Hospital and at his death was described as “a doctor’s doctor.”

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    Following Gerty Cori’s death from myelofibrosis, Barbara Illingworth-Brown continued biomedical research into the causes of glycogen storage diseases at Washington University and was able to do a partial analysis of this patient’s glycogen.

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Baird, J.S. (2022). Glycogen Storage Diseases. In: Dorothy Hansine Andersen. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87484-1_14

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