See Also: Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex(medicine)
mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection(medicine)
Starling, Ernest Henry(encyclopedia)
Mycobacterium intracellulare(medicine)
mycobacterium avium(medicine)
mycobacterium avium complex(medicine)
mycobacterium avium complex disease(medicine)
Starling, Ernest(medicine)
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry(encyclopedia)
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Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (medicine) and Starling, Ernest Henry (sh)


Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (medicine)


Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex


An opportunistic agent of people with AIDS. Difficult to treat because Mycobacterium is resistant to many antibiotics. May also cause chronic lower respiratory tract infections.


Starling, Ernest Henry (sh)




born April 17, 1866, London, Eng.
died May 2, 1927, Kingston Harbour, Jam.

British physiologist.

His studies of lymph secretion clarified the roles of different pressures in fluid exchanges between vessels and tissues. Starling and William Bayliss showed how nerve impulses control peristalsis and coined the term hormone. Starling also found that water and necessary chemicals filtered out by the kidneys are reabsorbed at the lower end of the nephron. His Principles of Human Physiology (1912), continually revised, was a standard international text.