Bayliss and Starling Discover Secretin and Establish the Role of Hormones

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Article abstract: Bayliss and Starling proved unequivocally that chemical integration can occur without assistance from the nervous system.

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Much information is available in the 1990’s concerning the control of secretin release and its targets, but this awareness has not always been the case. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two English physiologists (Sir William Maddock Bayliss and Ernest Henry Starling) were interested in ascertaining what triggered the pancreas to pour out digestive juices as soon as food arrived in the...

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