Hans Walter Kosterlitz was a German-born British biologist, who graduated Dr. med in Berlin. He settled in Scotland and took a DSc at the University of Aberdeen where he was, for many years, Reader in Physiology. Kosterlitz is best known for his work on endorphins. He performed a famous experiment that he envisioned in a dream while sleeping. He stimulated a strip of guinea pig intestine electrically and was able to record the contractions with a polygraph.

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  • Hans Walter Kosterlitz was a German-born British biologist, who graduated Dr. med in Berlin. He settled in Scotland and took a DSc at the University of Aberdeen where he was, for many years, Reader in Physiology. Kosterlitz is best known for his work on endorphins. He performed a famous experiment that he envisioned in a dream while sleeping. He stimulated a strip of guinea pig intestine electrically and was able to record the contractions with a polygraph. He then found that if you added opiates to the solution, the intestine would not contract. Opiates inhibit intestinal contraction. Those contractions were later found to resume in the presence of both opiates and an antagonist such as naloxone. Later, endogenous endorphins were discovered by applying tissue (mouse brain homegenate) to the apparatus. This caused the contractions to cease. The degree to which an opiate agonist causes contractions in the guinea pig ileum is highly correlated to its potency. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.
  • Hans Walter Kosterlitz war ein deutsch-britischer Pharmakologe und Mediziner. Er ist vor allem durch seine Entdeckung der Opioidpeptide, speziell der Enkephaline bekannt geworden.
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  • Hans Walter Kosterlitz war ein deutsch-britischer Pharmakologe und Mediziner. Er ist vor allem durch seine Entdeckung der Opioidpeptide, speziell der Enkephaline bekannt geworden.
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