Betty Twarog
Betty Twarog | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | August 28, 1927
Died | February 6, 2013 Damariscotta, Maine, U.S. | (aged 85)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Tufts University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Betty Mack Twarog (August 28, 1927 – February 6, 2013) was an American biochemist who was the first to find serotonin in mammalian brain.
Life and career
Betty M Twarog was born on August 28, 1927, in New York City.
Twarog left the Cleveland Clinic in 1954 and continued to work on invertebrate smooth muscle at Tufts, Harvard and SUNY at Stony Brook.[2] In later years, at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, she worked on how shellfish evade phytoplankton poisons.[2]
Twarog died on February 6, 2013, at the age of 85 in Damariscotta, Maine.[5]
Impact in science and medicine
Twarog's isolation of serotonin in brain established its potential as a neurotransmitter and thus a modulator of brain action. Her discovery was an essential precursor to the creation in 1978 of the antidepressant
References
- ^ "Betty M. Twarog Obituary". Book of Memories. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
- ^ PMID 10432482.
- PMID 13211759.
- PMID 13114371.
- ^ "Betty M Twarog". Maine-OK Enterprises, Inc.