About Éliane Le Breton
Lived 1897 – 1977 (aged 79). Éliane Le Breton was a French physician, physiologist, researcher and professeur des universités – Praticien hospitalier.
Eliane Le Breton (born on the 18th March 1897 in Landunvez and died on the 23rd January 1977 in Paris) was a French physiologist known for her studies of cellular nutrition and the development of cancer cells. She was the director of research at the University of Strasbourg and taught at its Faculty of Medicine and worked at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris and Rennes.
Publications Variations biochimiques du rapport nucléo-plasmatique au cours du développement embryonnaire, 1923 Signification physiologique de l'oxydation de l'alcool éthylique dans l'organisme, 1936 Biochemistry and physiology of the cancer cell, published in The Cell. Biochemistry, Physiology, Morphology. Volume IV. Specialized Cells: Pt. 1, 1960
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French MD & physiologist (1897-1977)
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Éliane Le Breton was born on 18 March 1897 in Landunvez.
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Éliane Le Breton died on 23 January 1977 in 15th arrondissement of Paris.
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Éliane Le Breton was a physician, physiologist, researcher and professeur des universités – Praticien hospitalier.
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