Ernest Starling
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Ernest Starling was an English physiologist born on April 17 1866, in London, and died on May 2 1927. He worked mainly at University College London, although he also worked for many years in Germany and France. His main collaborator in London was his brother-in-law, William Maddock Bayliss.
Starling is most famous for developing the "Frank-Starling Law of the Heart", presented in 1915 and modified in 1919.
Other major contributions to physiology were:
- The Starling equation, describing fluid shifts in the body (1896)
- The discovery of secretin, the first hormone, with Bayliss (1902) and the introduction of the concept of hormones (1905).
- The discovery that the distal convoluted tubule of the kidney reabsorbs water and various electrolytes.
External links
- Who Named It [doctor/1188] - Biography
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