| Metchnikoff |
Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
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| Metchnikoff |
Elias Metchnikoff (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) was born in 1845, in a what is now Ukraine. His father was a Russian soldier. He was raised in the Jewish faith and had a passion for natural history. When Charles Darwins book, The Origin of Species was published, he was eager to believe the theory of evolution. He became interested in the study of microbes, and especially the immune system. ...
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| Metchnikoff's (Mechnikov's) cellular immunity t. |
the theory, proposed in the 1880s, that phagocytosis by macrophages and polymorphonuclear leukocytes is the main mechanism of host defense against bacterial infection and that inflammation is the result of the enzymatic digestion process occurring with phagocytosis.
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| Metchnikoff's theory |
see under theory.
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