Efrén Carlos del Pozo Rangel, Mexican physiologist and pharmacologist (San Luis, Potosí 11 September 1907 – Ciudad de Mexico 14 May 1979)
Authored over 50 papers
Discovered that newborn animals don’t display reflex palsy immediately after spinal cord lesions
With C. Guzmán, A. Fernandez & J. Negrete. El choque espinal en gatos jóvenes. Bol. Inst. Estud. Med. Biol. Mex. 12(7):169-72, 1954
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pharmacology of venoms of Mexican Centruroides. Rev. Invest. Salud Publica 28(1):51-66, 1968 & Mem. Inst. Butantan 33(2):615-25, 1966
With M. Salas & P. Pacheco. Effects of scorpion venom at neuromuscular junction. Rev. Invest. 33(3):961-4, 1966
Los effectos paralizantes de la “tullidora”, estudios clinicos y experimentales. Gac. Med. Mex. 95(2):179-82, 1965
La botânica medicinal indígena de Mexico. Estudios Cult. Nahuatl. 5:57-73, 1965
With C. Guzmán & F. del Pozo. Jump reflex in the hypothalamic cat. J. Neurophysiol. 16(4):376-80, 1953
With J. Negrete. Effect of adrenalectomy on the contraction of skeletal muscle. Rev. Inst. Salub. Enferm. Trop. 13(2):163-8, 1953
With J. Negrete, J. Ibarra & M. Fernandez. Effects of cortisone on striated muscle contraction. Amer. J. Physiol. 171(2):354-8, 1952
With A. Gonzalez Ochoa. Two cases of prevention and treatment of lepra reaction by cortisone. J. Invest. Dermat. 18:423-4, 1952
With E.G. Pardo & D. García-Tellez. The action of several principles and extracts of the digitalis group on ischemic skeletal muscle. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 101:63-7, 1951
With E.G. Pardo. Ischemic striated muscle as an indicator of the activity of a cardiac glycoside. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 97(2):144-9, 1949
With E.G. Pardo & G. Anguiano. Influence of striated muscle activity on the lethal dose of k-strophanthoside. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 96(1):86-94, 1949
The action of the venom of a Mexican scorpion (Centruroides noxius Hoffmann) on cholinesterases. Brit. J. Pharmac. Chemistry 3(3):219-22, 1948
With L.C. Anguiano. Acciones del veneno de alacrán sobre la atividade motora del musculo estriado. Rev. Inst. Salubridad Enf. Tropicales 8(4):231-63, 1947
With E. Pardo & J. Derbez. Cihuapahtli, an activator of uterine motility (Montanoa tomentosa). Fed. Proc. 5(1-2):79, 1946
Inhibitory responses of pregnant cat’s uterus to epinephrine and hypogastric stimulation. (1946)
With L.C. Anguiano. Physiological actions of scorpion venom (1946)
Estudios farmacologicos de algunas plantas usadas en la medicina azteca. Boletín Indigenista (1946)
With J. Gonzalez & T.H. Mendez. Acciones del veneno de alacrán sobre el aparato respiratorio. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. Mex. 6:77-84, 1945
With A. Rosenblueth. The changes of impedance of the turtle’s ventricular muscle during contraction. Amer. J. Physiol. 139:514-9, 1943
With A.A.P. Leão. The effects of hyperventilation and of blood-pressure changes on the self-sustained responses of the cerebral cortex. Amer. J. Physiol. 139:335-42, 1943
With A. Rosenblueth. The centrifugal course of Wallerian degeneration. Amer. J. Physiol. 139:247-54, 1943
With A. Rosenblueth. The electric responses of the tail pilomotors and nictitating membrane of the cat. Amer. J. Physiol. 137:263-79, 1942
With A. Rosenblueth. Accommodation in mammalian motor nerves. Amer. J. Physiol. 136:629-46, 1942
Transmission fatigue and contraction fatigue. Amer. J. Physiol. 135:763-71, 1942
El dinitrofenol 1-2-3-estimulante del metabolismo y su aplicación clinica. Thesis, UNAM (1935)
With A. Rosenblueth. The effects of veratrine upon the superior cervical ganglion. Amer. J. Physiol.
HONOURS
Associate Researcher, National Institute for Medical Research, London
A bibliography is available in Boletín Estudios Med. Biol. 31:116-26, 1980