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Answer for the clue "German physiologist and histologist who in 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882) ", 7 letters:
schwann

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Schwann may refer to: The Schwann cell Theodor Schwann , a German physiologist, histologist and cytologist Schwann Records , a German record label The Schwann catalog , a listing of in-print sound recordings in the United States, published from the late ...

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German zoologist Theodor Schwann, who was one of the founders of the cell theory of life.

It seems at present necessary to abandon the original idea of Schwann, that we can observe the building up of a cell from the simple granules of a blastema, or formative fluid.

Without an admixture of laminin and nerve growth factor derived from Schwann cells, the graft might not have taken, and the composite Emir would have remained paralyzed from the neck down.

Germany Doctor Schwann published a short paper in long sentences, and these muddy phrases told a bored public the exciting news that meat only becomes putrid when sub-visible animals get into it.

He failed to give the first discoverer, Schwann, proper credit for it!

It was Theodor Schwann, a German, who had this insight, and it was not only comparatively late, as scientific insights go, but not widely embraced at first.

A typical egocentric pathological legacy is a van Gieson staining of a Schwann cell nuclei from a Schwannoma, and Scarpetta fails to understand why German naturalist Theodor Schwann would have wanted a tumor named after him.

Finally, in 1839, these observations were combined together by Schwann into one general theory.

This the belief of Schwann, although he also regarded the other parts of the cell as of importance.