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Bernardo Houssay [1887-1971] Argentinian
Rank: 104
Scientist


Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, received one half Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar in animals.


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The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.
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The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.
102
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.
103
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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