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Camillo Golgi ( July 7, 1843 - January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician.Golgi was born in Corteno, Italy. His father was a physician and district medical officer. Golgi studied medicine at University of Pavia, where he worked in the experimental pathology laboratory under Giulio Bizzozero , who elucidated the properties of bone marrow. He graduated in 1865. He spent much of his career studying the central nervous system. Tissue staining techniques in the latter half of the nineteenth century were inadequate for studying nervous tissue. While working as chief medical officer in a psychiatric hospital, he experimented with metal impregnation of nervous tissue. He discovered a method of staining nervous tissue which would stain a limited number of cells at random, in their entirety. This enabled him to view the paths of nerve cells in the brain for the first time. He called his discovery the black reaction. It is now known universally as the Golgi stain. The reason for the eclectic, random staining is still not understood.
In addition to this discovery, Golgi discovered a tendonA tendon or sinew is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue, attached on one end to a muscle and on the other to a bone. They are similar to ligaments except that ligaments join one bone to another. Due to their poor blood supply, tendons and ligaments sensory organ that bears his name. He studied the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparumPlasmodium falciparum is a protozoan parasite, one of the species of Plasmodium that cause malaria in humans. It is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. falciparum is the most dangerous of these infections as P. falciparum malaria has the highest rates of and related the timing of feverFever also known as pyrexia is a medical symptom which describes an increase in temperature to levels which are above normal (37 degrees Celsius 98. 6 degrees Fahrenheit). An adaptive mechanism, fever is the body's reaction to pathogens; it attempts to kis seen in malariaMalaria ( Italian: bad air ; formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which causes about 500 million infections and 2 million deaths annually, mainly in the tropics and sub-Saharan Africa. The protozoan cause of malaria was with the life cycle of this organism. Using his staining technique, Golgi identified the 'internal reticular apparatus' which bears his name, the Golgi apparatusIn cell biology, the Golgi apparatus Golgi complex or dictyosome is an organelle found in nearly all eukaryotic cells. The name comes from Italian anatomist Camillo Golgi, who identified it in 1898. Its primary function is to process proteins targeted to.
Golgi, together with Santiago Ramón y CajalSantiago Ramon y Cajal ( May 1, 1852 October 17/ 18, 1934) was a famous Spanish histologist and father of neuroscience. He was born in Petilla de Aragon, a Navarrese enclave in Aragon, Spain and attended the medical school of Zaragoza, from which he gradu, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links http://www. se/medicin 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t for his studies of the structure of the nervous system.
Golgi died in Pavia, Italy, in January 1926.
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