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    Oleh Hornykiewicz (17 November 1926 – 26 May 2020) was an Austrian biochemist. Oleh Hornykiewicz was born in 1926 in Sykhiw (a district of Lviv), then...
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    reduction in the intensity of the animals' symptoms. In 1960 or 1961 Oleh Hornykiewicz, after discovering greatly reduced levels of dopamine in autopsied...
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  • is available to enter the brain. In 1960 the Austrian biochemist Oleh Hornykiewicz, while at the University of Vienna, examined results of autopsies...
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    to the work of Arvid Carlsson on the neurotransmitter dopamine and Oleh Hornykiewicz on its role on PD. Carlsson was eventually awarded a Nobel Prize for...
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    reticulata and compacta was first proposed by Sano in 1910. In 1963, Oleh Hornykiewicz concluded from his observation that "cell loss in the substantia nigra...
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    signaling were identified in the 1950s, largely by Arvid Carlsson and Oleh Hornykiewicz. In 1997, alpha-synuclein was found to be the main component of Lewy...
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  • 23 – Jitendra Nath Pande, Indian pulmonologist (b. 1941) May 26 – Oleh Hornykiewicz, Austrian biochemist (b. 1926) May 30 – John Cole, British geographer...
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  • A. Berson, Rosalyn S. Yalow 1972 Sune Bergström, Britton Chance, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Robert Russell Race, Ruth Sanger 1973 Roscoe O. Brady, Denis P. Burkitt...
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  • founder of Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, kidney failure. Oleh Hornykiewicz, 93, Austrian biochemist, Wolf Prize winner (1979). Houdini, 21, Canadian...
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    humans was related to depletion of striatal dopamine. A year later Oleh Hornykiewicz, who had been introduced to dopamine by Blaschko and was carrying...
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