Paul Langerhans
German pathologist, physiologist and biologist
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- Doctorate Medicine University of Jena
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Langerhans was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans. Eponymous terms Islets of Langerhans – Pancreatic cells which include insulin-producing cells. Langerhans discovered these cells during his studies for his doctorate at the Berlin Pathological Institute in 1869.Langerhans cells – Skin cells concerned with the immune response and which sometimes contain Langerhans granules. In 1868, Langerhans used the technique taught to him by Julius Friedrich Cohnheim to stain a sample of human skin with gold chloride and identified the cells which bear his name. From their appearance, Langerhans believed they were nerve cells. However they are a form of macrophages that were originally thought to be dendritic cells due to their morphology.Layer of Langerhans – In the same paper in which he described Langerhans cells, he described the granular cells in the exterior portion of the Malpighian layer of the epidermis, the stratum granulosum otherwise known as the Layer of Langerhans.Langerin – CD207, langerin is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CD207 gene. It is expressed in the Birbeck granules of Langerhans cells.
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