Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo | |
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Born | Silvianópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil | 20 April 1917
Died | 28 July 1998 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais | (aged 81)
Education | Federal University of Minas Gerais |
Known for | Discovery of bradykinin |
Awards | Rockefeller Foundation (1949), British Council (1954), Brazilian Academy of Sciences |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medicine, physiology |
Institutions | University of São Paulo, Federal University of Minas Gerais |
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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.
External links
- Wilson Teixeira Beraldo. Biography (In Portuguese)