Photo: In this lab, Banting and Best carried out early experiments which ... islets of Langerhans (called "insulin," from the Latin for "island") to diabetic dogs, their abnormally high blood ...

Charles Robert Richet, a French physiologist, made several experiments testing the reaction of dogs exposed to poison ... isolation and clinical use of insulin against diabetes.

In fact, up to 1% of dogs get diabetes at some point in their lifetime. This condition happens when their bodies don't produce enough insulin — a hormone that controls the amount of glucose in ...