Open AccessHomeostasis — the Walter B. Cannon's Legacy — Applied to the Metabolic Syndrome and the Scientific Enterprise
Author(s) -
Amira Klip
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.14
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1548-9213
pISSN - 1548-9221
DOI - 10.1152/physiol.00011.2016
Subject(s) - metabolic syndrome , excellence , life expectancy , insulin resistance , gerontology , medicine , obesity , political science , population , law , environmental health
Walter B. Cannon (1871–1945) was a physiologist par excellence, who put to the forefront of medicine the concept that the body responds to external situations through physiological processes that aim to return the body to the steady state . One could argue that, in fact, the physiological
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