Abstract
▪ Abstract This article, which is partly biographical and partly scientific, summarizes a life in academic medicine. It relates my progress from benchside to bedside and then to academic and research administration, and concludes with the teaching of human biology to college und
Cahill, G. F., Jr. (2006). Annual Review of Nutrition, 26, 1–22. DOI
Key findings
- Fuel metabolism starvation — ▪ Abstract This article, which is partly biographical and partly scientific, summarizes a life in academic medicine.
- abstract which partly — It relates my progress from benchside to bedside and then to academic and research administration, and concludes with the teaching of human biology to college undergraduates.
- relates progress benchside — My experience as an intern (anno 1953) treating a youngster in diabetic ketoacidosis underscored our ignorance of the controls in human fuel metabolism.
- experience intern anno — Circulating free fatty acids were then unknown, insulin could not be measured in biologic fluids, and β-hydroxybutyric acid, which was difficult to measure, was considered by many a metabolic poison.
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Synthesis review — strong map for the field, not one fresh trial; use for orientation before primary studies.