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FIBIGER, Johannes (1867 – 1928)

FIBIGER, Johannes (1867 – 1928)

1867 – 1928

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Publication Inform. München. : J.F. Lehmann. , 1928. Galerie Hervorragender Ärzte und Naturforscher. [1] · CC BY 4.0

1913 CE

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Untersuchungen über eine Nematode (Spiroptera sp. n.) und deren Fähigkeit papillomatöse und carcinomatose Geschwulstbildungen im Magen der Ratte hervorzurufen.

Fibiger demonstrated that the roundworm, which he called Spiroptera carcinoma (but is correctly named Gongylonema neoplasticum), could cause stomach cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) in rats and mice. His experimental …