Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, Brazilian pharmacologist (Silvianopolis, Minas Gerais State 20 April 1917 – Belo Horizonte 28 July 1998)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Known internationally as an expert in vasoactive polypeptides
Co-discovered bradykynin With M. Rocha e Silva & G. Rosenfeld. Bradykynin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor released from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin. Am. J. Physiology 156:261-73, 1949.
Demonstrated bradykinin release in anaphylactic and peptonic shocks
Demonstrated urinary kallikrein is of renal origin Substance U – a depressor and smooth muscle
stimulating principle present in urine Demonstrated that granulations of mast cells store histamine With L.C.U. Junqueira, I. Mota e Albuquerque & R.G. Ferri. Intracellular distribution of histamine. Nature 174:698-9, 1954 Held nearly 2,000 citations
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