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| Title |
Centenary of the death of Elie Metchnikoff: a visionary and an outstanding team leader
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| Published in |
Microbes & Infection, June 2016
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.micinf.2016.05.008 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Sandra Legout |
| Abstract |
Elie Metchnikoff passed away on July 15(th), 1916. He is considered to be the father of phagocytes, cellular innate immunity, probiotics, and gerontology. In all of these fields, he was a visionary. To achieve such a notability and produce so many masterpieces, Metchnikoff used more than 30 animal species to support his findings, and his pasteurian laboratory published more than 200 papers in the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. As a wonderful team leader and a great mentor, during his 28 years at Institut Pasteur, he welcomed and supervised more than 100 young trainees.Trained as an embryologist, he contributed to the birth of immunology and to the understanding of physiology and pathology. Indeed, Metchnikoff and his team investigated inflammation in guinea pigs, rats, frogs; studied infectious diseases in monkeys, caimans, geese; investigated aging in parrots, dogs, humans; proposed hypotheses to understand age-associated senility using rabbits and humans; developed germ free tadpoles, flies, chicks; studied the gut flora in bats, horses, birds, humans; and popularized the use of probiotics as a tool to delay the deleterious effects of toxic compounds derived from putrefactive gut bacteria. He was also a philosopher and penned essays on human disharmony and on pessimism and optimism. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 41 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 7 | 17% |
| United States | 5 | 12% |
| Peru | 3 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Australia | 2 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 2% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 10% |
| Unknown | 14 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 30 | 73% |
| Scientists | 9 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 58 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 10% |
| Researcher | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Unknown | 18 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 16% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 10% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 16% |
| Unknown | 19 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2024.
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#1,151,019
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Microbes & Infection
#106
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#21,315
of 355,758 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Microbes & Infection
#4
of 23 outputs
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