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Wilhelm von Waldeyer: Important Steps in Neural Theory, Anatomy and Citology

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Harz is regarded as a significant anatomist who helped the entire medical world to discover and develop new techniques in order to improve patient treatment as well as decrease death rates. He discovered fascia propria recti in 1899, which is important in tota...

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Autores principales: Saceleanu, Vicentiu Mircea, Mohan, Aurel George, Covache-Busuioc, Razvan Adrian, Costin, Horia Petre, Ciurea, Alexandru Vlad
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8869857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35203987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020224
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author Saceleanu, Vicentiu Mircea
Mohan, Aurel George
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Costin, Horia Petre
Ciurea, Alexandru Vlad
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description Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Harz is regarded as a significant anatomist who helped the entire medical world to discover and develop new techniques in order to improve patient treatment as well as decrease death rates. He discovered fascia propria recti in 1899, which is important in total mesorectal excision which improves cancer treatment as well as outcomes. He played an important role in developing the neuron theory which states that the nervous system consists of multiple individual cells, called neurons, which currently stands as the basis of the impulse transmission of neurons. Waldeyer was also interested in cytology, where he made a substantial contribution, being the first who adopted the name “Chromosome”. Therefore, he accelerated the progress of what it is now known as Genetics. In conclusion, starting from the Fascia propria recti and continuing with great discoveries in cytology and neuron theory, Wilhelm von Waldeyer represents a key person in what we today call medicine.
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spelling pubmed-88698572022-02-25 Wilhelm von Waldeyer: Important Steps in Neural Theory, Anatomy and Citology Saceleanu, Vicentiu Mircea Mohan, Aurel George Covache-Busuioc, Razvan Adrian Costin, Horia Petre Ciurea, Alexandru Vlad Brain Sci Viewpoint Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Harz is regarded as a significant anatomist who helped the entire medical world to discover and develop new techniques in order to improve patient treatment as well as decrease death rates. He discovered fascia propria recti in 1899, which is important in total mesorectal excision which improves cancer treatment as well as outcomes. He played an important role in developing the neuron theory which states that the nervous system consists of multiple individual cells, called neurons, which currently stands as the basis of the impulse transmission of neurons. Waldeyer was also interested in cytology, where he made a substantial contribution, being the first who adopted the name “Chromosome”. Therefore, he accelerated the progress of what it is now known as Genetics. In conclusion, starting from the Fascia propria recti and continuing with great discoveries in cytology and neuron theory, Wilhelm von Waldeyer represents a key person in what we today call medicine. MDPI 2022-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8869857/ /pubmed/35203987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020224 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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