Wylie Walker Vale Jr (1941-2012)

摘要

Wylie Vale and his colleagues answered a long-standing biological riddle: which substance controls the body's 'fight or flight' response? Vale's isolation of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in 1981 and his exploration of the molecular basis of stress hormones opened the way to drugs for treating hypertension, heart disease, obesity,diabetes and depression.