Bernardo Houssay Quotes

Argentina, Physiologist
April 10, 1887 – September, 21, 1971.

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, was a co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals. He was the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences. He shared the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori, who won for their discoveries regarding the role of glucose in carbohydrate metabolism).

The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.

Bernardo Houssay
Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.

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- Fall

The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.

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- Heart
- Control
The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.

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Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

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- Love
- You
- Tell