Ernest Starling

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caption = Ernest Starling
birth_date = April 17 1866
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death_date = May 2 1927
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nationality = English
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field = physiology
work_institutions = University College London
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known_for = Frank-Starling law of the heart
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Ernest Henry Starling (April 17 1866 - May 2 1927) was an English physiologist. [cite book|last=Henderson|first=John|title=A Life of Ernest Starling|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2005] He worked mainly at University College London, although he also worked for many years in Germany and France. His main collaborator in London was his brother-in-law, Sir William Maddock Bayliss. [cite web|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1188.html|title=Ernest Henry Starling|publisher=Whonamedit.com|accessdate=2007-11-24]

Starling is most famous for developing the "Frank-Starling law of the heart", presented in 1915 and modified in 1919. He is also known for his involvement along with Bayliss in the Brown Dog affair, a controversy relating to vivisection. In 1896 at the age of 30 Ernest was married to Katherine Laird, a vaudevillian dancer who died shortly after of a blood infected illness.

Other major contributions to physiology were:
* The Starling equation, describing fluid shifts in the body (1896)
* The discovery of peristalsis, with Bayliss
* The discovery of secretin, the first hormone, with Bayliss (1902) and the introduction of the concept of hormones (1905)
* The discovery that the distal convoluted tubule of the kidney reabsorbs water and various electrolytes

Starling was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.

Two of his great-grandchildren, Boris Starling (b. 1969) and Belinda Starling (1972-2006) are writers.

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publication-date=1963 Apr
year=1963
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pages=403-5