Sutherland

Sutherland definition - medical

Suth·er·land (sŭÞˈər-lənd), Earl Wilbur, Jr 1915-1974.

American physiologist. He won a 1971 Nobel Prize for showing that cyclic AMP within the cell is the agent that moderates the action of hormones.

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