[Santiago Ramon y Cajal--his life and his work]
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Live Imaging Followed by Single Cell Tracking to Monitor Cell Biology and the Lineage Progression of Multiple Neural Populations
Published on: December 16, 2017
Zakira Mornjaković1, Alen Kekić
1Institut za histologiju i embriologiju, Medicinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
Abstract:
This article is done on the occasion of anniversary of 150th birth of Spanish histolog Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852.-1934.) whom belongs position of founder neuroanatomy regarding that he gave wide descriptions cells organisation of central and peripheral nervous system for many animal species. Astonishing are his descriptions of different types of neurons, their links, and following glial cells, that are actual today. Special contribution of Cajal refers is to acts from domain of histological technique and micrography, and general pathology. He published more than 100 of scientific articles and a few books, that are classic works. In 1906 Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi shared Nobel prize for medicine.
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