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PAUL ALFRED WEISS
Pages 372-386

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From page 373...
... Rosalie Kohn Weiss. The major cultural interests of the family lay not in science but in music, poetry, en c!
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... that regeneration of the limb involves! not merely the reformation of each tissue from the corresponding tissue of the stump, but differentiation of skeletal elements from non-skelatinous tissue, since a normal limb conic!
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... negative results in his stucly of effects of chemical attraction en c! electrical orientation, but was able to show that nerve fiber outgrowth, just like cell growth stucliec!
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... limbs, comparing the movement of graft en c! control limbs using slow motion cinematography to identify the time of onset en c!
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... the unexpectec! observation that the limb, when enervated, underwent continuous spontaneous convulsions, indicating a new fincIing, namely that spontaneous rhythmic discharges were a characteristic property of nerve pools.
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... Uncler a program of the Office of Scientific Research he undertook a study of nerve growth and regeneration that might apply to nerve surgery en c! be of potential clinical value.
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... a number of experiments consistent with his molecular hypothesis illustrating the specificity of cell behavior. In amphibian larvae grafts of epithelial sheets fuses!
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... whole animal studies en c! tissue culture using currently available techniques, inclucling electron microscopy, phase contrast with cinematography, en c!
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... War II he servec! on a Marshall Plan commission set up to revive scientific activity in Europe.
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... "Axonal flow," for example, although neither strictly axonal nor strictly flow still crystalizes a complex set of relater! icleas en c!
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... into the new cliscipline, which playoc! an important role in promoting the later clevelopment of molecular genetics as an integral part of the study of clevelopment.7 W Day ON background material provided by the National Academy of Sciences and on part of Weiss's extensive publications.
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From page 384...
... Impairment of growth and myelinization in regenerating nerve fibers subject to constriction.
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From page 385...
... Electron microscopic study of the texture of the basement membrane of larval amphibian skin.
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From page 386...
... Demonstration of axonal flow by the movement of tritium labeled protein in mature optic nerve fibers.
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  • axonal flow
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  • cell suspensions
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  • cell growth
  • neural connections
  • arterial sleeve

  • nerve repair
  • neuronal dynamics
  • fibers subject
  • slow motion
  • pigment cells

  • harvey society
  • neural organization
  • international society
  • quantitative studies
  • electrical orientation

  • corresponding muscle
  • postdoctoral student
  • innovative approach
  • specific conditions
  • chick embryonic

  • normal limb
  • normally pliable
  • patterns characteristic
  • phase contrast
  • larval amphibian


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