A growth hormone which can make dwarfed animals grow to normal or even giant size has been used extensively in a University of California laboratory.
Dr. Herbert M. Evans, professor of anatomy and director of the Institute of Experimental Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, today described the hormone which is called Soma-totrophin.
He is here to speak at the 63rd session of the American Association of Anatomists which got under way yesterday at the LSU School of Medicine.
"The hormone has been used successfully to induce growth in animals whose pituitary gland lias been removed," he said. This gland is the one which normally governs growth.
"Not only have we been able to restore the normal size of animals with no pituitary, we have in some instances been able to make giants of them," he added.
...The m e e t i n g will continue through Friday with demonstrations at the LSU medical school and Charity Hospital and motion pictures, a banquet and a smoker to be held at the Jung Hotel.
