Platon Kostiuk
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Born | Platon Hryhorovych Kostiuk 20 August 1924 |
Died | 10 May 2010 Kyiv, Ukraine | (aged 85)
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Spouse | Lyudmyla Kostyuk (1929–2011) |
Children | Olena (1957–2011) Olga (1966) |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physiology |
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Thesis | Nerve adaptation to expanding current (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Danylo Vorontsov |
Notable students | Galyna Skibo, Alexei Verkhratsky |
Platon Kostiuk | |
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Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR | |
In office 1985–1990 | |
Preceded by | Kostiantyn Sytnyk |
Succeeded by | Vladimir Ivashko |
Platon Hryhorovych Kostiuk (
Biography
Platon Kostiuk was born in Kyiv to the family of the Ukrainian psychologist Hryhoriy Kostiuk.[3] A native speaker of both Ukrainian and Russian, Kostiuk studied English and German, and graduated from high school when the German–Russian War began in 1941. Kostiuk entered Stalingrad University to study biology and Roman philology. He was later evacuated to Siberia, where he studied medicine till 1945. After half a year of military medical service, he was demobilized for entry into the Department of Biology at Kyiv University. In parallel, he studied psychiatry at Kyiv Medical Institute. Kostiuk worked on his doctoral thesis in Danylo Vorontsov's laboratory of physiology. In his research, he developed microelectrode equipment independently of Judith Graham Pool and Ralph W. Gerard (1949). He completed his doctoral thesis in 1957. In 1958, Kostiuk became Head of the Department of General Nervous System Physiology at the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology. From 1969 to 2010, he served as the director of the institute.[4]
In 1960–61, Kostiuk was invited to
Research
Platon Kostiuk was the first to introduce microelectrode studies of the nervous system in the USSR.[5] He was the first to prove directly the presence of calcium channels in neuronal cell membranes.[6] Under his supervision, two types of calcium currents were discovered: high-voltage activated and low-voltage activated.[7] He also proposed an original hypothesis on calcium channels' selectivity mechanism.[8]
Awards and chairs
Kostiuk was a vice-president of the International Union for Physiologycal Sciences from 1989 to 1993.[9]
In 1966, he was elected a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[10]
In memoriam
Kostiuk students established Kostiuk Foundation to support young scientists and promote physiological research in Ukraine. Once a year, the Foundation presents Kostiuk Award to outstanding young researchers in the field of biomedical sciences.[11]
Publications
He published more than 1000 scientific papers in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Some of the most important include:
- Kostyuk, P. G.; Eccles, J.С.; Schmidt, R. F. (1962). "Central pathways responsible for depolarization of primary afferent fibres". The Journal of Physiology. 65 (2): 237–257. PMID 13889054.
- Kostyuk, P. G.; Araki, T.; Ito, M.; Oscarsson, O. (1962). "Injection of alcaline cations into cat spinal motoneurones". S2CID 4257533.
- Kostyuk, P. G.; Krishtal, O.A.; Pidoplichko, V.I. (1975). "Effect of internal fluoride and phosphate on membrane currents during intracellular dialysis of nerve cells". S2CID 1354301.
- Kostyuk, PG; Molokanova, EA; Pronchuk, NF; Savchenko, AN; Verkhratsky, AN (December 1992). "Different action of ethosuximide on low- and high-threshold calcium currents in rat sensory neurons". Neuroscience. 51 (4): 755–8. S2CID 41451332.
References
- ^ "Platon Kostyuk. FEPS.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- OCLC 34218792.
- ^ Lukianets, O.O. (2012). "Пам'яті Людмили Василівної Костюк" [In memoriam Lyudmyla Vasylivna Kostyuk]. Медична гідрологія та реабілітація (in Ukrainian). 10 (1): 82. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014.
- S2CID 54235026.
- ^ Platon Grigor’evich Kostiuk. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979)
- PMID 903906.
- Richard W. Tsien and Curtis F. Barrett (2005), "A Brief History of Calcium Channel Discovery" (PDF), in Gerald Zamponi(ed.), Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels, Eurekah.com and Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 27–47
- S2CID 39761267.)
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- ^ "List of Members". www.leopoldina.org. Archived from the original on 2017-10-04.
- ^ Kostyuk Foundation