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May 12, 2024 · phagocytosis. Élie Metchnikoff (born May 16, 1845, near Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]—died July 16, 1916, Paris, France) was a Russian-born zoologist and microbiologist who received (with Paul Ehrlich) the 1908 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery in animals of amoeba-like cells that engulf ...
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Feb 3, 2016 · Abstract. The year 2016 marks the centenary of the death of Elie Metchnikoff, the father of innate immunity and discoverer of the significance of phagocytosis in development, homeostasis and disease. Through a series of intravital experiments on invertebrates and vertebrates, he described the role of specialised phagocytic cells, macrophages ...
- Siamon Gordon
- 10.1159/000443331
- 2016
- J Innate Immun. 2016 Apr; 8(3): 223-227.
Aug 1, 2016 · D.M.U. Metchnikoff championed the idea that phagocytosis in unicellular organisms, the main function of which is the acquisition and digestion of food, evolved other purposes as multicellular ...
- David M. Underhill, Siamon Gordon, Beat A. Imhof, Gabriel Núñez, Philippe Bousso
- 2016
Nov 1, 2003 · Metchnikoff's phagocytosis theory was less an explanation of host defence than a proposal that might account for establishing and maintaining organismal 'harmony'. By tracing the phagocyte's ...
- Alfred I. Tauber
- 2003
Jun 16, 2016 · Originally a zoologist, Metchnikoff started his impressive scientific work as a developmental embryologist under the strong influence of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” published in the year 1859. By describing phagocytes and phagocytosis, he discovered one of the most intriguing mechanisms of innate immunity.
- Fabrice Merien
- 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00125
- 2016
- Front Public Health. 2016; 4: 125.
Aug 25, 2016 · The life and work of Elie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) is a study of contrasts, pessimism followed by optimism, from Imperial Russia to the Pasteur Institute, comparative embryology to experimental pathology. And yet his discovery of the significance of phagocytosis reveals an underlying continuity, which serves as a thread from intracellular ...
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Aug 25, 2016 · The life and work of Elie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) is a study of contrasts, pessimism followed by optimism, from Imperial Russia to the Pasteur Institute, comparative embryology to experimental pathology. And yet his discovery of the significance of phagocytosis reveals an underlying continuity, which serves as a thread from intracellular ...
