Significance of Mechnikov’s scientific inheritance for development of medicine.

Authors

  • L. S. Semenova
  • E. V. Nykolaeva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26641/2307-0404.2016.4.91497

Keywords:

Mechnikov, medicine, infection, ageing

Abstract

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov  is an outstanding  scientist, zoologist, anatomist, embryologist, microbiologist, parasitologist, pathologist, bacteriologist, physiologist, cytologist, and immunologist. He was a resourceful and skilful biologist-experimenter, the author of the phagocytic theory of immunity. In 1908 I.I. Mechnikov together with the apologist of the humoral concept of  immunity Paul Ehrlich was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine «for research in the theory of immunity». The paper tells about the life and research of  this scientist, importance of  his researches for modern  medicine.

Author Biographies

L. S. Semenova

SE «Dnipropetrovsk medical academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine»
Department of Social Medicine, Organization and Health Administration
Dzerzhinsky str., 9, Dnipro, 49044, Ukraine

E. V. Nykolaeva

CE «VerkhnedneprovskCRH» DOS
GagarinStr, 16, Verkhnedneprovsk, 51600, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine

References

Mechnikova ON. [Life of Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov]. Moskva, Gos. Izd. 1926;216. Russian.

Mechnikov II. [Academik Composition]. Moskva, Medisina, 1964;16:463. Russian.

Mechnikov II. [Unperception to infectious diseases]. Moskva, Medgiz; 1947:698. Russian.

Mechnikov II. [Collection of Composition]. Moskva, Medisina, 1956; XI:226. Russian.

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Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

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Semenova LS, Nykolaeva EV. Significance of Mechnikov’s scientific inheritance for development of medicine. Med. perspekt. [Internet]. 2016Dec.22 [cited 2024Nov.13];21(4):174-6. Available from: https://journals.uran.ua/index.php/2307-0404/article/view/91497

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