Vasily Danilewsky

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Vasily Iakovlevich Danilewsky
Даниле́вский Васи́лий Я́ковлевич
University of Kharkiv
Kharkiv Medical Institute
Danilevsky Institute of Endocrine Pathology Problems
Thesis Investigations into the physiology of the brain  (1877)
Author abbrev. (zoology)Danilewsky

Vasily Lakovlevich Danilewsky (variously spelled Vasili Yakovlevich Danilewsky or Vasili Yakolevich Danilevski or Vasily Yakovlevich Danilevsky,

University of Kharkiv
and then at Kharkiv Medical Institute. He helped to establish the Danilevsky Institute of Endocrine Pathology Problems which he directed until his death.

Danilewsky made important works in physiology, particularly in

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of a number of bird parasites. His paper titled "About Blood Parasites (Haematozoa)" published in 1884 in the Russian Medicine journal is regarded as the foundation of modern parasitology in bird malaria and other protozoan infections.

A species of blood parasite in bird Haemoproteus danilewskyi is named after him.[2]

Biography

Danilewsky was born in

doctoral degree in 1877, at the age of 25, upon the thesis Investigations into the physiology of the brain.[3][4] He was professor of physiology at the University of Kharkiv during 1883 to 1909 and 1917 to 1921. From 1921 he transferred to Kharkiv Medical Institute. In 1927 the Russian Academy of Sciences
established Danilevsky Institute of Endocrine Pathology Problems, which he directed until his death.

Contributions

Danilewsky was one of the pioneers of neurobiology. He was the first to describe the nerve impulse system in the brain of dogs. However, his most notable works were in parasitology. In 1884, he was the first to observe the species of

Haemospororida for it.[5] He helped to establish a new genus Leucocytozoon (but did not give the name). He was the first to observe the genus in 1889. The first species described in 1898 was even named primarily after him as Leukocytozoen Danilewskyi.[6][7]

Danilewsky was the first to describe the

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for experimentally demonstrating the principle.) He identified the bird malaria parasites as "pseudovacules", and by 1885 he recognised for the first the existence of three separate genera of protozoan parasites in birds, now known as Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon. However, his publication was in Russian and therefore was not accessible to outside Russia, until they were translated into French in a three-volume book La Parasitologie Comparée du Sang in 1889.[8]

Danilewsky described and discovered the protozoan Trypanosoma avium in 1885, the first known flagellate protozoan parasite in birds.[9][10][11]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-2036-4379-2
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  2. ^ "Haemoproteus danilewskyi". ZipcodeZoo.com. David Stang. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  3. ISBN 978-3-7985-1500-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  4. ISBN 9781604560220
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  5. S2CID 30884814
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  6. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.23060
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  7. PMID 804039
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  8. PMID 20205846
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  9. S2CID 6722945
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  10. S2CID 37558911
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  11. doi:10.1139/z70-140
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