Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934) is a biochemist. He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Jump to: navigation, search May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Biochemistry is the chemistry of life. ... Jump to: navigation, search Halmstad [hulm-stɑː(d), pr. ... Stockholm University Stockholm University, or Stockholms universitet, is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sune Karl Bergström (January 10, 1916 - August 15, 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. ... Sir John Robert Vane (March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004) was a British pharmacologist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Jump to: navigation, search A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body. ...

Discussing the role of prostaglandins in the body, Samuelsson explained, "It's a control system for the cells that participates in many biological functions. There are endless possibilities of manipulating this system in drug development." Jump to: navigation, search A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body. ...

His research interests were originally in cholesterol metabolism with importance to reaction mechanisms. Following the structural work on prostaglandins along with Sune Bergström he has interested mainly in transformation products of arachidonic acid. This has directed to the identification of endoperoxides, thromboxanes and the leukotrienes, and his group has chiefly been involved in studying the chemistry, biochemistry and biology of these compounds and their function in biological control system. The research has implications in numerous clinical areas, especially in thrombosis, inflammation, and allergy. Cholesterol is a steroid, a lipid, and an alcohol, found in the cell membranes of all body tissues, and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. ... Thromboxane is a member of the family of lipids known as eicosanoids. ... Leukotrienes are autocrine and paracrine eicosanoid lipid mediators derived from arachidonic acid by 5-lipoxygenase. ... Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo. ... Biochemistry is the chemistry of life, a bridge between biology and chemistry that studies how complex chemical reactions give rise to life. ... Main articles: Life The most salient example of biological universality is that all living things share a common carbon-based biochemistry and in particular pass on their characteristics via genetic material, which is based on nucleic acids such as DNA and which uses a common genetic code with only minor... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that treat patients. ... Jump to: navigation, search Thrombosis is the formation of a clot or thrombus inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. ... Inflammation is the first response of the immune system to infection or irritation and may be referred to as the innate cascade. ... An allergy or Type I hypersensitivity is an immune malfunction whereby a persons body is hypersensitised to react immunologically to typically nonimmunogenic substances. ...

This field grew enormously since those days. Between 1981 and 1995 about three thousand papers per year were published that openly used the expression "prostaglandins," or related terms such as "prostacyclins," "leukotrienes," and "thromboxanes," in their labels and titles. Swedish Medical Association's Jubilee Award Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...