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1,008 entries match Immunology & Dermatology [C19 / C20 / C17]
1948
#2135.1
Occupational marks and other physical signs. A guide to personal identification.
Calluses, other dermatological and physical signs of professions and occupations illustrated and described, with an annotated bibliography that includes some historical references.
1948
#2578.6
In vitro method for testing the toxin-producing capacity of diphtheria bacteria.
Agar gel immunodiffusion.
1948
#3908
Studies in growth. I. Interrelationship between pituitary growth factor and growth-promoting androgens in acromegaly and gigantism. II. Quantitative evaluation of bone and soft tissue growth in acromegaly and gigantism.
L. W. Kinsell, G. D. Michaels, C. H. Li, and W. E. Larsen showed that there is an increase in growth hormone in plasma in acromegaly.
1948
#4154.1
Melanomas of childhood.
Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.
1949
#4671.1
Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.
Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…
1949
#1155
Isolation of nor-adrenaline from the adrenal gland.
With U.S. von Euler and U. Hamberg. See also fuller account in Acta physiol. scand., 1950, 20, 101-8. Noradrenaline was independently isolated by B. F. Tullar, Science, 1950, 109, 536-7.
1949
#1175.2
Isolation of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).
By Choh Hao Li and colleagues.
1949
#2578.7
The production of antibodies. 2nd ed.
Burnet and Fenner introduced the “self-marker” concept – natural tolerance to one’s own body constituents depended on their presence at a critical stage of embryonic development.
1949
#3855.1
Imidazoles. IV. The synthesis and antithyroid activity of some 1-substituted-2-mercaptoimidazoles.
Synthesis of methimazole (mercazole, thiamazole), an antithyroid drug more potent than methylthiouracil. With E. C. Kornfeld, K. C. McLaughlin, and R. C. Anderson.
1949
#4154.2
Concurrent melanosis and hypertrichosis in distribution of nevus unius lateris.
“Becker’s nevus”, pigmented hairy epidermal nevus.
1949
#7316
Histopathology of the skin.
1950
#2352
A new and practical B.C.G. skin test (the B.C.G. scarification test) for the detection of the total tuberculous allergy.
1950
#2578.8
Localization of antigen in tissue cells. II. Improvements in a method for the detection of antigen by means of fluorescent antibody.
Fluorescent antibody technique.
1950
#4154.3
Balanitis circumscripta chronica met plasmacellen-infiltraat.
Zoon’s plasma cell balanitis.
1950
#12821
The diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in childhood and adolescence.
The first textbook of pediatric endocrinology.
1951
#3855.2
Antithyroid activity of 2-carbethoxythio-1-methylglyoxaline.
Synthesis of Carbimazole. With C. Rimington and C. E. Searle. For clinical application see Lancet, 1951, 2, 621.
1951
#4154.4
A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair with congenital deafness.
“Waardenburg’s syndrome”.
1951
#13595
The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.
This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…
1952
#4672.1
Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.
Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.
1952
#1155.1
Isolation of a highly active mineralocorticoid from beef adrenal extract.
Isolation of aldosterone. With S. A. Simpson and J. F. Tait.
1952
#1155.2
The total synthesis of steroids.
Synthesis of cortisone by Woodward and colleagues. With F. D. Taub, K. Heusler, and W. M. McLamore.
1952
#2578.9
Agammaglobulinemia.
First report.
1952
#2578.10
Presence d’une leuco-agglutinine dans le sérum d’un cas d’agranulocytose chronique.
Discovery of leuco-agglutinins.
1952
#11103
Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…
1952
#12032
A nonhereditary, host-induced variation of bacterial viruses.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Luria, Human. Luria and Human discovered the restriction modification system found in bacteria and other prokaryotic organisms. This system provides a defense against f…
1953
#4672.2
Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.
Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.
1953
#1138.1
3:5:3'-Triiodothyronine. I. Isolation from thyroid gland and synthesis.
Discovery of the second thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1953
#1175.3
The synthesis of an octapeptide amide with the hormonal activity of oxytocin.
Synthesis of oxytocin. With C. Ressler, J. M. Swan, C. W. Roberts, P. G. Katsoyannis, and S. Gordon. In 1955 Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds…
1953
#2578.11
‘Actively acquired tolerance’ of foreign cells.
Proof of Burnet and Fenner’s theory of immunity. For their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance Medawar and Burnet (No. 2578.7) shared the Nobel Prize in 1960.
1953
#2578.13
Méthode permettant l’étude conjugée des propriétés éléctrophorétiques et immunochimiques d’un mélange de protéines. Application au sérum sanguin.
Immunoelectrophoresis.
1953
#3908.1
Experience with hypophysectomy in man.
Demonstration of the beneficial effect of hypophysectomy in cancer of the breast and of the testis.
1953
#4158
Classics in clinical dermatology. With biographical sketches.
Contains 143 classic descriptions of cutaneous diseases by 93 writers. Many portraits are also included.
1954
#1175.4
A synthetic preparation possessing biological properties associated with arginine-vasopressin.
Synthesis of vasopressin. With D. T. Gish and P. G. Katsoyannis.
1954
#2578.12
Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. I. The survival times of skin homografts exchanged between members of different inbred strains of mice. II. The origin, strength and duration of actively and adoptively acquired immunity.
Experimental production of immunological tolerance by Billingham and colleagues.Paper II distinguished adoptive from passive immunization. E. M. Sparrow was a co-author of paper I.
1954
#2578.14
Kinetic studies on immune hemolysis. III-IV.
Complement fixation
1954
#2578.15
Passive transfer of transplantation immunity.
Preliminary notice in Nature (Lond.), 1953, 171, 267-68.
1954
#3924.3
A new syndrome: progressive familial infantile cerebral dysfunction associated with unusual urinary substance.
Maple syrup urine disease described. With P. L. Hurst and J. M. Craig.
1954
#4158.1
Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.
1954
#14000
Plaque formation and isolation of pure lines with poliomyelitis viruses.
Dulbecco and Vogt were the first to successfully grow the poliovirus in vitro. They were also able to plaque purify it-- an essential step for subsequent vaccine production.
1955
#4672.3
Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.
Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …
1955
#1207
The disulphide bonds of insulin.
Sanger sequenced the amino acids of insulin, the first of any protein. His work “revealed that a protein has a definite constant, genetically determined sequence—and yet a sequence with no general rule for its assembl…
1955
#2578.16
The fractionation of rabbit -globulin by partition chromatography.
Preliminary note in Biochem. J., 1954, 58, xxxix-xl. Porter received the Nobel Prize in 1972. See No. 2578.25.
1955
#3877.1
Primary aldosteronism, a new clinical syndrome.
Primary aldosteronism (“Conn’s syndrome”).
1956 –1960
#86.4
Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.
Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…
1956
#2353.1
Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccination of newborn infants with a British vaccine.
Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccine.
1956
#2578.17
Infectivity of ribonucleic acid from tobacco mosaic virus.
Proof that nucleic acid produces infectivity. See also Z. Naturf., 1956, 11b, 138-42.
1956
#2578.18
The bursa of Fabricius and antibody production in the domestic fowl.
The relationship of the bursa of Fabricius to antibody formation was discovered by Glick, T. S. Chang, and R. G. Jaap. Its removal in early life led to inability to produce antibodies.
1956
#2578.19
Autoantibodies in Hashimoto’s disease (lymphadenoid goitre).
Demonstration of autoantibodies. With P. N. Campbell, and R. V. Hudson.
1956
#2578.20
Studies on organ specificity. IV. Production of rabbit thyroid antibodies in the rabbit.
Autoimmune thyroiditis
1957
#2578.21
The effects of the continuous re-infusion of lymph and lymphocytes on the output of lymphocytes from the thoracic duct of unanaesthetized rats.
Gowans’s work, particularly between 1957 and 1962, was mainly responsible for the fusion of studies on the lymphocytes with the mainstream of immunology. The above paper dealt with the recirculation of lymphocytes. Se…