Silk tie with Viagra pills pattern
- ID-nummer
- 2017.011.003
- Titel
- Silk tie with Viagra pills pattern
- Objektkategori
- Kläder & assessorer
- Publik beskrivning
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This is how Louis Ignarro describes this tie with a pattern of Viagra tablets:
“This special tie was fabricated just for me and presented to me by a representative of the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company in New York City. The tie subtly depicts dozens of blue ‘VIAGRA’ tablets scattered throughout the tie. The significance of the tie is that my laboratory, in 1992, reported that the long sought-after neurotransmitter that causes penile erection is nitric oxide (NO). Based on our work, Pfizer developed and marketed Viagra, which works by increasing the erectile action of NO. Interestingly, Viagra was approved and marketed in April 1998, and the Nobel Prize for our research on nitric oxide was announced only a few months later, in October 1998. Amusingly, I am often referred to as the Father of Viagra.”
Louis Ignarro donated the tie to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2017. - Pristagare
- Louis J. Ignarro