A Life of Ernest Starling
By: Henderson, John [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: People and Ideas Series: Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2005.Description: 256 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781461475262.Subject(s): Medicine | Human physiology | Biomedicine | Human PhysiologyDDC classification: 612 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | Available | EBK2710 |
Prelude -- Hearts and Capillaries -- 1890–1899 -- Secretin, Politics, and the New Institute -- Starling’s Law and Related Matters -- Interlude: The Haldane Commission (1910–13) -- The Great War -- 1918–1920 -- Back to Research -- The End of the Trail -- A Life Surveyed.
Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of British Physiology. His name is usually associated with his "Law of the Heart,” but his discovery of secretin (the first hormone whose mode of action was explained) and his work on capillaries were more important contributions. He coined the word 'hormone' one hundred years ago. His analysis of capillary function demonstrated that equal and opposite forces move across the capillary wall--an outward (hydrostatic) force and an inward (osmotic) force derived from plasma proteins.
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