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Berta V. Scharrer
Berta V. Scharrer
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EARLY LIFE Berta Vogel Scharrer was born on December I, 1906, in Munich, Germany, to {ohanna Weiss Vogel en c! Karl Phillip Vogel, a prosperous judge who server!
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the University of Munich, where she became interested in the work of the bee behavioral biologist Professor Karl von Frisch, whose own Tong life was punctuates! with the 1973 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
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While Berta clic! obtain research space at the university, she was given neither academic title nor salary.
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Her classic first papers on the topic, in which she clescribec! neurosecretory cells in the Opisthobranch snail Aplysia and in the Polychaete worm Nereis, appearec!
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There were obligatory programs to attend, indoctrination meetings...." The Scharrers experienced increasing pressure to join Nazi organizations en c! to shun Jewish colleagues.
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to obtain a small laboratory space, en c! although she was again unsalariecI, she was able to resume her studies of neurosecretory cells.
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neurosecretory cells in her cockroaches en c! other arthropods, Killing to the ever-expancIing menagerie of animals that supporter!
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summers on the east coast, at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woocis Hole, they also enjoyoc! trips to Lake Erie for collection of fish samples, en c!
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Berta was able to demonstrate further that neurosecretory cells conveyor! their output of secretory granules to the corpus carcliacum by transport clown the nerve axon.
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so quickly hac! it not been for the comparative approach undertaken by the Scharrers.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Berta Scharrer at last came into her own. Ernst hac!
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These lectures served as the basis for their classic 1963 book Neuroendocrinology, which became one of the premier texts in the rapidly expanding field. In April 1965 the Scharrers went to Miami for the annual anatomy meetings.
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reach their targets over a distance through the circulation, just as conventional hormones clot But Berta also shower! that other pathways are possible, inclucling secretory granule release from terminals in close contact with target cells, inclucling other neurons, a concept similar to our unclerstancling of chemical transmission at the synapse.
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Fate's twistings clictatec! that Berta Scharrer began to receive formal public recognition of her work in neurosecretion just years after her close partner in that work was lost.
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An c! while neurosecretory cells are often quite similar structurally to conventional neurons, so they are often similar functionally to glanclular secretory cells.
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and in a speech given in 1982 by Sanford Palay in presentation of the Henry Gray Award to Berta Scharrer at the ninety-fifth meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
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Uber Drusen-Nervenzellen und neurosekretorische Organe bei Wirbellosen und Wirbeltieren.
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The ultrastructure of the corpus cardiacum of the insect Leucophaea maderae.
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8:269-84. 1991 Neuroimmunology: the importance and role of a comparative approach.
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