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May 12, 2024 · Élie Metchnikoff 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 foreign bodies such as bacteria—a phenomenon known as phagocytosis and a fundamental part.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 1, 2016 · The year 2016 marks 100 years since the death of Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916), the Russian zoologist who pioneered the study of cellular immunology and who is widely credited with the discovery...
- David M. Underhill, Siamon Gordon, Beat A. Imhof, Gabriel Núñez, Philippe Bousso
- 2016
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 25, 2016 · Main Text. 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 ...
- Siamon Gordon
- 2016
Aug 25, 2016 · Main Text. 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 ...
Nov 1, 2003 · Published: 01 November 2003. Metchnikoff and the phagocytosis theory. Alfred I. Tauber. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 4 , 897–901 ( 2003) Cite this article. 6828 Accesses. 232...
