Bovet, Daniel

1907–1992 Swiss-born Italian physiologist and pharmacologist who discovered the antihistamine drugs.

Keywords: pharmacology; nervous system; neuropharmacology; histamine; sulfonamide

 Further Reading
    book Bovet D (1988) Une chimie qui guérit. Histoire de la pharmacie et de la découvert des sulfamides. Paris, France: Payot.
    book Bovet D and Nitti F (1948) Structure chimique et activité pharmacodynamique des médicaments du système nerveux végétatif (The chemical structure and pharmacodynamic activity of drugs of the vegetative nervous system). Basel: Karger.
    book Bovet D, Nitti F and Marini-Bettòlo GB (1959) Curare and Curare-like Agents. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
    Daniel Bovet (1993) Curriculum vitae and scientific publications. Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità 29(supplement 1): 67–104.
    book Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds) (1990) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology. New York: Garland.
    Raju TN (1999) The Nobel chronicles. 1957: Daniel Bovet (1907–92). Lancet 353(9168): 1981.
    Shampo MA and Kyle RA (1999) Daniel Bovet. Nobel laureate in medicine. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 74(10): 1016.
    book Sourkes T (1967) Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology, 1901–1965, pp. 407–420. London: Abelard-Schuman.
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Canali, Stefano(Apr 2001) Bovet, Daniel. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002742]