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LANDSTEINER, Karl (1868 – 1943)

LANDSTEINER, Karl (1868 – 1943)

1868 – 1943

9 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Bachrach Studios · [2] · Public domain

1900 CE

#889

Zur Kenntniss der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe.

Also: Landsteiner, "Ueber Agglutinationsercheinungen normalen menschlichen Blutes," Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 14, 1901, 1132-1134. Landsteiner discovered that human blood contains iso-agglutinins capable of aggl…

1904 CE

#2558.1

Über paroxysmale Hämoglobinurie.

The first description of an auto-antibody, and of an auto-immune disease, paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria. See A.M. Silverstein, A history of immunology, New York, Academic Press, 1989, Ch. 8, The Donanth-Landsteiner a…

1906 CE

#2400

Zur Technik der Spirochaetenuntersuchung.

Dark field method of diagnosis for presence of T. pallidum.

1909 CE

#4669

Uebertragung der Poliomyelitis acuta auf Affen.

Landsteiner and Popper were the first to isolate poliovirus and to transmit poliomyelitis to monkeys.

1910 CE

#4670.3

La poliomyélite experimental.

Serum from a monkey that had recovered from experimental poliomyelitis was mixed with an emulsion containing active polio virus; it failed to produce paralytic disease when injected into fresh monkeys.

1927 CE

#910

A new agglutinable factor differentiating individual human bloods.

Discovery of M and N agglutinogens. See also the same journal, pp. 941-42.

1933 CE

#2576.2

Die Spezifizität der serologischen Reaktionen.

Summary of many years of research on antigen-antibody interactions. Landsteiner considered his study of hapten-antibody reactions to be his most significant work. Revised English translation, 1936 (revised 1945).

1940 CE

#912.2

An agglutinable factor in human blood recognized by immune sera for Rhesus blood.

Recognition of the Rh antigen

1942 CE

#2578.3

Experiments on transfer of cutaneous sensitivity to simple compounds.

Cellular transfer of delayed hypersensitivity, establishing the criticial role of mononuclear cells in cellular immunity.