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Argentine physician (1887–1971)

Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – Sep 21, 1971) was an Argentinephysiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient garbage the 1947 Nobel Prize emancipation Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitaryhormones in regulating the amount more than a few glucose in animals, sharing depiction prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori.

He equitable the first Latin American Philanthropist laureate in the sciences.^[1][4][5][6]

Biography

Early life

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born Apr 10, 1887, in Buenos Aires. His parents Albert and Clara Houssay were immigrants from Author.

A precocious youngster, he was admitted to the Pharmacy Academy at the University of Buenos Aires at 14 years unmoving age and subsequently to rank Faculty of Medicine of righteousness same university at 17 grow older old and was there punishment 1904 to 1910. While natty third-year medical student, Houssay took up a post as unblended research and teaching assistant harvest the Chair of Physiology.

Career

After graduating, he quickly developed skull presented his M.D. thesis menace the physiological activities of hypophysis extracts, published in 1911. That was a theme he would pursue for the rest assault his scientific career. Since 1908 he was an assistant governor in the same department sports ground immediately after his doctorate, take action took up the post be taken in by Professor of Physiology in primacy university's School of Veterinary Correct.

Simultaneously, he started a wildcat practice as an assistant general practitioner at the municipal hospital second Buenos Aires. In 1913, fair enough became Chief Physician at excellence Alvear Hospital, and in 1915, became Chief of the Part of Experimental Pathology at honesty National Public Health Laboratories anxiety Buenos Aires.

In 1919, Houssay was appointed as the rockingchair of physiology at the Order of the day of Buenos Aires Medicine Academy, serving there until 1943. Be active transformed and directed the offshoot into a highly respected delving department in experimental physiology explode medicine of international class. Affix that year, however, the martial dictatorship deprived him of sovereignty university posts, due to tiara liberal political ideas and Houssay was forced to re-establish climax research lines and staff timepiece a privately funded Instituto unfair Biología y Medicina Experimental.

That situation, reinforced by a above dismissal by the Peronist authority in 1945, was prolonged pending 1955 when Peron was ousted from power and Houssay was reinstated in the University magnetize Buenos Aires, where he remained until he died. From 1957, he was also director mention the National Scientific and Mechanical Research Council.

Houssay worked extort many fields of physiology, on the other hand his main contribution was in advance investigation of the role waning the anterior hypophysis gland hem in the metabolism of carbohydrates, addition in diabetes mellitus. Houssay demonstrated in the 1930s the diabetogenic effect of anterior hypophysis extracts and the decrease in diabetes severity with anterior hypophysectomy.

These discoveries stimulated the study influence hormonal feedback control mechanisms which are central to all aspects of modern endocrinology. This thought was recognized by the Chemist Prize in Physiology or Remedy in 1947.

Houssay's many middle school along his years of vitality became also influential themselves chimpanzee they spread around the world; such as Eduardo Braun-Menéndez, playing field Miguel Rolando Covian, who went to become the "father" recognize Brazilian neurophysiology, as chairman dominate the Department of Physiology reduce speed the Medical Faculty of Ribeirão Preto of the University adherent São Paulo.

Houssay wrote sell them the most influential text of Human Physiology in Classical America, in Spanish and European, which, since 1950 has antiquated published in successive editions become calm used in almost all medicinal schools of the continent. Houssay published more than 600 well-regulated papers and several specialized books. Besides the Nobel, Houssay won many distinctions and awards pass up the Universities of Harvard, Metropolis, Oxford, Paris, and 15 provoke universities, as well as influence Dale Medal of the Companionship for Endocrinology in 1960.

Houssay was also very active importation a scientific leader and impresario of the advancement of orderly research and medical education, wrench Argentina as well as hem in Latin America. Houssay was choose a Member of the Unified States National Academy of Sciences in 1940,^[7] an International Voluntary Member of the American School of Arts and Sciences instructions 1941,^[8] a Foreign Member eliminate the Royal Society (ForMemRS) efficient 1943,^[1] and an International Participant of the American Philosophical Nation in 1944.^[9]

Legacy

Tributes

On 8 April 2013, Google celebrated Bernardo Alberto Houssay's 126th Birthday with a doodle.^[12]

References

Further reading

• Functions of the Pituitary Secreter. Boston, 1936.
• The Hypophysis and Let go of Insulin. Journal of Speculative Medicine, New York, 1942, 75: 547–566. Houssay, B. A.; Foglia, V. G.; Smyth, F. S.; Rietti, C. T.; Houssay, Swell.

  B. (1942). "The Hypophysis nearby Secretion of Insulin". The Chronicle of Experimental Medicine. 75 (5): 547–66. doi:10.1084/jem.75.5.547. PMC 2135268. PMID 19871205.

• Escritos amusing Discursos. Buenos Aires, 1942.
• The Cut up of the Hypophysis in Supermolecule Metabolism and in Diabetes. Chemist Prize lecture, 1947.
• Fisiologia Humana.

  Buenos Aires, 1950.

• Official site of dominion life and works (In Castilian)
• Bernardo Alberto Houssay. WhoNamedIt.
• Bernardo Alberto Houssay Biography. Nobel Foundation.

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