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Anichkov, Nikolaj (1885–1964)

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Nikolay Anichkov

Original Names

Николай Николаевич Аничков

Other Names

Nikolaj Anitschkov

Date, Country, and City of Birth

November 3, 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date, Country, and City of Death

December 7, 1964, Leningrad, USSR

History of Life

N. Anichkov was born as a son of philologist, belonging to a famous noble family in Russia. He finished in 1903 the third classic school (gymnasium) with the gold medal and entered the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg. After graduating with honors in 1909, N. Anichkov stayed in his alma mater as institute doctor at the department of anatomic pathology and plunged into research under the guidance of professor A.I. Moiseev. His MD thesis was devoted to inflammatory changes in experimental myocarditis (1912) (Anitschkov 1912). In this work, he described the epithelioid cells with wavy chromatin aggregation, giving rise to the designation «caterpillar cells» (Anitschkov cells in the textbooks all over the...

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References and Further Reading

  • Anichkov, N. (1928). Texbook in pathophysiology (in Russ).

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  • Anichkov, N. (1930). The Doctrine of reticuloendothelial system (in Russ).

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  • Anichkov, N. (1940). The vessels (special anatomic pathology) (in Russ).

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  • Anichkov, N. (1951). Morphology of wounds healing (in Russ).

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  • Anichkov, N. (1964). Compensatory adjustments in the structure of the coronary arteries of the heart with stenotic atherosclerosis.

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  • Anitschkov, N. (1912). About the inflammatory changes of myocardium. Thesis. SPb (In Russ).

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  • Anitschkov, N. (1913). Über die Veränderungen der Kaninchenaorta bei experimenteller Cholesterinsteatose. Beitz. Z path. Anat., 1913, Bd.56, 42, S. 379–404

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  • Anitschkov, N. (1925). Das Wesen und die Entstehung der Atherosklerose. Ergebnisse der inneren Medizin. Kinderheilv, 1925, Bd 28S, 1–46

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty, University of Saint-Petersburg, Ligovski pr 2-4, 194100, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    Vsevolod A. Zinserling (Tsinzerling)

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  1. Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan G. van den Tweel

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Zinserling (Tsinzerling), V.A. (2017). Anichkov, Nikolaj (1885–1964). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_2861

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