1845–1916 Russian biologist who discovered phagocytes, developed a cellular theory of immunity, demonstrated the cells of acute inflammation and studied ageing.
Keywords: phagocyte; cellular immunity; inflammation; ageing
Metchnikoff, Elie (Ilya)
JM Cruse, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
RE Lewis, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Published online: May 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002355
| Further Reading | |
| Metchnikoff E (1884) Ueber eine Sprosspilzkrankheit der Daphnien. Beitrag zur Lehre über den Kampf der Phagocyten gegan Krankheitserreger. Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 96: 177–195. | |
| book Metchnikoff E (1905) Immunity in Infective Diseases, Binnie FG (transl.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book De Kruif P (1926) "Metchnikoff: The nice phagocytes". Microbe Hunters, pp. 190–214. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. | |
| Hirsch JG (1959) Immunity to infectious diseases: review of some concepts of Metchnikoff. Bacteriological Reviews 23: 48–60. | |
| book Metchnikoff O (1921) Life of Eli Metchnikoff 1845–1916. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. | |
| Silverstein AM (1979) Cellular versus humoral immunity; determinants and consequences of an epic 19th century battle. Cellular Immunology 48: 208–221. | |
| book Tauber AI and Chernyak L (1991) Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Zalkind S (1959) Ilya Mechnikov. His Life and Work, Danko X. (transl.). Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. | |
