Wilson Teixeira Beraldo

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Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
Born(1917-04-20)20 April 1917
Died28 July 1998(1998-07-28) (aged 81)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
EducationFederal University of Minas Gerais
Known forDiscovery of bradykinin
AwardsRockefeller Foundation (1949), British Council (1954), Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, physiology
InstitutionsUniversity of São Paulo, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (20 April 1917, Silvianópolis, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil – 28 July 1998, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin.

Beraldo graduated in

Brazilian Academy of Sciences
.

As a scientific leader, Beraldo was very important for the development of physiology in Brazil, and of the scientific establishment in general. He was a founding member of the

Brazilian Society of Physiology
.

While in

kallikrein is of renal origin and not pancreatic, as it was thought, and that its oxytocic activity is a direct action, rather than through the intermediate formation of kinins
.

Bibliography

  • Beraldo, W.T. and Andrade, S.P.: Discovery of bradykinin and the kallikrein-kinin system. In: The Kinin System. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1997.
  • Beraldo WT, Siqueira G, Heneine IF. Kallikrein and kallikrein inhibitor in rats. Acta Physiol Lat Am. 1974;24(5):460-3.
  • Rocha e Silva M, Beraldo WT, Rosenfeld G. Bradykinin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor released from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin. Am J Physiol.. 1949;156:261-273.

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