The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1931, Page 10

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Top len ictume chows what a composite of the three film queens mentione1 would look like. C=rtoon at bottom shows the freshman in his element, 7 but looking none too hannv list can be crossed the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1931. mes With Furniture ed colorful novelty Espacially weaves, the and al tray wi 1 round me from the very ¢¢ xpensive orientals to arc sm:ili‘ | BUFFALO, N. Y, reading | a new novelty t the man her space 5 wall as a most decorative To the lamp stand it ch, in Studying Gland Functions By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Dec. 4— s which are sugitiy synthetic grown at the University of ey are altered in early life, in y glands transplanted by an ation to another part of their from the normal location at base of the brain. anges result in the frog, some ing and visible, others wholly al, but all scientifically im- ant and of potential value to For the pituitary is one of the cndrocine glands, and moreover is seginning to show itself as the er gland of the endrocine sys- tem It heads up the series of ductless | glands which are intimately associ- d with growth, personal appear- ance, disease, insanity, sexual de- velopment and indirectly probably | with the emotions. But the pitultary is difficult to tudy, for its system of ‘control is mplex. Transplanting cuts off {some of the gland's functions so even with the tray arm. 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D,, professor of anatomy. | ‘The gland wnich he transplants s about the size of a pin head. ‘When removed from the head and | grafted into the tadpole's tail the tadpole cannot change into a frog, | that is, cannot metamorphose. | But if the pituitary is trans- | planted to a position near the tad- pole’s inner ear, he metamorphoses into a frog. He also turns a silvery color, in- stéad of the usual dark green. This complexion change is traced to atrophy of one of the sections of the transplanted pitultary, the in- termediate lobe. Little is known yet of this lobe, |but its effect on frog colorings have been verified. His color turns dark again if he is given extracts of this lobe taken from other ani- mals. When the extract is discon- tinued, he - become silvery once more. Not all the transplanted gland | Thus one by one some of the| withers. 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