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The pigment solution he used is known today as Ehrlich's reagent. Ehrlich's great achievement, but also a source of problems during his further career, was that he had initiated a new field of study interrelating chemistry, biology and medicine.
Jan 10, 2014 · The basis of unique chemoreceptors being used to develop more specific agents that not only target particular pathogens but also have no toxic host effect was proposed by Ehrlich. He realized that moving from laboratory studies to clinical implementation was fraught with dangers.
- Glenn S Tillotson, Stephen H Zinner
- 2013
Oct 20, 2015 · As a first step, he established a theory that proposed the existence of distinct, cell-fixed and membrane-related structures that interact with extracellular material – the so-called “side-chain theory.” 8 Today, this theory can be regarded as an important precursor of the “receptor-ligand concept” that has since greatly fertilized ...
- Bernd Groner, Hans-Peter Horny, Fritz Sörgel, Udo Schumacher, Peter Valent
- 2015
Sep 1, 2004 · The very concept of chemotherapy, and his classification of cancer cells as 'feindliche Brüder' (hostile brothers), would suggest that Ehrlich's contributions to experimental cancer research were...
- Jürgen Drews
- 2004
Aug 1, 2010 · While handling a busy patient load, Ehrlich continued his studies in organic chemistry and studied bonds formed between tissues and stains. Using blood samples obtained from patients, he developed differential staining methods to demonstrate red and white blood cells in leukemia and anemia.
- Michael Titford
- 2010
Feb 5, 2016 · In the current article, we provide a short overview of Paul Ehrlich's life and career and a review of his major contributions to chemistry, hematology, immunology, pharmacology, drug development and translational medicine.
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Paul Ehrlich of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt (Germany) gave the address in Pathology on Chemotherapeutics: scientific prin-ciples, methods and results [1]. Many of the key points of Ehrlich’s treatise set the stage for modern therapeutics in the treatment of infectious diseases. Ehrlich