Camillo Golgi

Italian physician Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) develops a staining technique that vastly improves researchers ability to see and study neurons. 

Camillo Golgi and Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) share the Nobel Prize... 

Camillo Golgi and S. Ramon y Cajal Physiology/Medicine Discovery of Golgi apparatus... 

Since the first description of glial cells, Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) and Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) recognized that astrocytes are located in strategic positions between neurons and capillaries to act as a conduit for signals between different cells types in the central nervous system (CNS Ramon y Cajal, 1899). Later on, examination of the nervous system at the ultrastructural level has shown that astrocytes can be intimately associated with synapses, literally enwrapping many pre- and postsynaptic terminals. For instance, in the hippocampus, 57% of the axon-spine interfaces are associated with astrocytes (Ventura and Harris, 1999). It is likely that this close physical relationship provides an opportunity for many functional interactions between astrocytes and neurons. 

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an extensive, flattened, convoluted membrane system that is divided into two different components the rough ER and the smooth ER. The rough ER gets its craggy appearance from numerous ribosomes attached to it ribosomes are the cellular machinery that synthesize proteins. The smooth ER synthesizes lipids— fatty molecules. The Golgi apparatus (named for Camillo Golgi, who first observed it) is a stack of flattened membranes to which many proteins made in the ER go for modification. 

Golgi bodies - were first described by an Italian microscopist, Camillo Golgi, in 1898. However, as they are very variable and hard to detect, especially in plant cells, there has been much doubt and dis-... 

M. K. Dalitz, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Dissertation, 2005. L. F. Haas, J. Neurol. Neurosurg Psychiatry 67 (1999) 520 http //de.wikipedia. org/wiki/Alphonse Laveran http //www.nobelprize.org/nobel prizes/medicine/ laureates/1907/laveran-bio.html. http //de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo Golgi. 

Fabene, P.F. and BentivogUo, M. (1998) 1898-1998 Camillo Golgi and "the Golgi" one hundred years of terminological clones. Brain Res. Bull. 47, 195-198. 

Antonella Gervasini Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Camillo Golgi 19, 20133 Milan, Italy, e-mail antonella.gervasini unimi.it... 

Bentivoglio M, Jones EG, Mazzarello P et al (2011) Camillo Golgi and modern neuroscience. Brain Res Rev 66 1-4... 

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