Bayliss and Starling describe secretin - the experiment that launched the hormone concept

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September 12, 1902↗ source

In a Journal of Physiology paper dated 12 September 1902, William Bayliss and Ernest Starling showed that acid in the duodenum releases a chemical messenger into the blood that drives the pancreas to secrete. They named it secretin - and coined the word hormone for this new class of blood-borne signals, founding modern endocrinology.

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