Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri
Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri, Indian helminthologist (Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh State 08 April 1942 – Considered a world authority on plant and soil nematodes Authored over 25 books and monographs and 400 research papers DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genera & Subgenera Acephalodorylaimus 1982 with Ahmad Actus 1973 with Baqri Amphilobendira 1987 with Rahman, Ahmad & Ahmad Amphitylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Annulospira 1969 with Siddiqi Aporcedorus 1983 with Ahmad Arcidorylaimoides 1992 with Ahmad Athernema 1978 with Ahmad Athusia 1976 with Anwar Axodorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Baqriella 1998 with Ahmed Basirotyleptus 1964 Belondorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Calvatylus 1977 with Siddiqi Cephalodorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Clarkus 1970 Clavidorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Clavilenchus 1966 Comiconchus 1982 with Khan Coomansinema 1989 with Ahmad Coomansus 1977 with Khan Coronatylencholaimellus 1992 with Ahmad Crestonchulus 2002 with Siddiqi Curvidorylaimus 1982 with Rahman Digidorylaimoides 1992 with Ahmad Disctylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Divittus 1984 Dominicactinolaimus 1992 with Ahmad Dorella 1984 Dorsalla 1966 Drepanodorylaimus 1966 Duriella 1999 with Dhanam Elongidorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Farooqifilaria 1970 with Siddiqi Filidorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Francofilaria 1970 with Siddiqi Francolinema 1970 with Siddiqi Goferus 1992 with Ahmad Gopalus 1988 with Khan & Ahmad Gymnotyleptus 1982 with Ahmad Hadronchoides 1983 with Rahman Imphalenchus 1980 with Dhanachand Jensenonchus 1982 with Khan Kunjudorylaimus 2000 with Dhanam Leptotylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Longidorylaimoides 1992 with Ahmad Loofilaimus 1998 with Ahmad & Sturhan Megaonchulus 1982 with Khan Mesodorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Metadorylaimus 1966 with Goodey Metadorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Metarhabditis 2004 with Tahseen, Hussain, Tomar & Shah Micatonchus 2001 with Tahseen & Choi Miconchoides 1982 with Khan Morasia 1969 with Baqri Mulkorhynchus 1988 Neodolichorhynchus 1984 with Hunt Neometadorylaimus 1992 with Ahmad Nepalus 1980 with Ahmad Nordia 1964 with Siddiqi Nygellolaimellus 1999 with Dhanam Oostenbrinkella 1965 Opisthodorylaimus 1982 with Ahmad Ophisthotylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Ophisthotyleptus 1992 with Ahmad Orientylus 1977 with Siddiqi Oxybelondira 1979 with Ahmad Paracrassibucca 1973 with Baqri Paractinolaimoides 1994 with Khan & Ahmad Paraenchodelus 1980 with Ahmad Paraleptonchus 1999 with Dhanam Paramylonchulus 1982 with Khan Paraoxybelondira 1999 with Dhanam Paraoxydirus 1979 with Ahmad Parkellus 2001 with Tahseen & Choi Paurodontoides 1969 with Siddiqi Phallaxonchium 1979 with Dhanachand Prodolichorhynchus 1985 Prodorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Promiconchus 1982 with Khan Protylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Pseudotylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Qudsianema 1965 & Qudsiella 1967 (in honor to his mother Qudsia) Rotundus 1980 with Ahmad Sclerolaimus 1992 with Ahmad Scutylenchus 1971 Silvallis 1986 with Ahmad Spiculaxonchium 1992 with Ahmad Stopractinca 1994 with Khan & Ahmad Tessellus 1984 with Hunt Unigaxonchium 1999 with Dhanam Willinema 1967 with Baqri Species Over 500 HONORS (Nematoda) Genus Moshajia Siddiqi 1982 Subgenus Shamimonema Chawla, Khan & Prasad 1965
Miguel L. Jaume
Miguel Luis Jaume García, Cuban malacologist (La Habana 11 November 1905 – La Habana 13 December 1990) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera With De la Torre 1972 Acrocoptis Amphistemma Anafecoptis Arangocoptis Asthenocoptis Bermudezicoptis Bialasmus Blaincoptis Callocoptis Capillacea Carcinostemma Cavicoptis Cenocoptis Centralia Clenchicoptis Cylindrocoptis Garciacoptis Geminicoptis Gravicoptis Heterocoptis Johaniceramus Juanocoptis Levicoptis Levistemma Mimiaxis Nodulia Organocoptis Orienticoptis Palenquecoptis Pfeiffericoptis Planostemma Poeycoptis Sagracoptis Scalaricoptis Teneria Tenuistemma Trilamellaxis Uncinicoptis Ventricochlis With others Aguayodiscus 1946 with Borro Bakerviana 1957 with Aguayo Cupulella 1948 with Aguayo Eucryptelasmus 1943 with Fuentes Plicathyrium 1943 with Fuentes Semitrochatella 1958 with Aguayo Species About 700 between Fossil and Living mollusks HONORS (Mollusca) Genera Jaumeia Aguayo 1943 & Jaumea Torre & Bartsch 1972 Subgenus Jaumeoconcha Alcalde Ledón 1945
Miguel Francisco Jimenez
José Miguel Francisco de la Luz Jimenez Garcia, Mexican physician (Amozoc, Puebla 10 October 1813 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 April 1876) HEPATIC ABSCESSES First to describe amoebic hepatic abscess (1842) and to diagnose it in relation to bronchii (1843) Performed the most complete clinical and anatomopathological description of hepatic abscess Absceso del hígado en comunicación con los brônquios (1843) Lecciones dadas en la Escuela de Medicina de México. Primera parte. Abscesos del higado (1856) Tratamiento de los abscesos del hígado. Gac. Med. Mex. 2:12, 1866 Diagnostico diferencial entre los abscesos del hígado. Gac. Med. Mex. 10:345, 1875 Introduced hydro-abdominal succussion for treatment of hepatic abscesses Developed Jimenez method for treating hepatic abscesses consisting of simple and repeated punctures in the liver for tapping through the intercostal spaces by the common trocar (1856) Gave the first account of an amoebic complication in the skin (1872) OTHERS Distinguished typhus from typhoid fever before Jenner and proposed a new differential diagnosis Los apuntes para La historia de la fiebre petequial o tabardillo que reina en Mexico (1846) Sobre la identidad de las fiebres (1864) Introduced improvements to percussion and auscultation Reported proteinuria in Scarlet fever (1856)
Miguel Eduardo Jorg
Miguel Eduardo Jorg Gutknecht, Argentine physician and microscopist (Ingeniero White, Bahia Blanca Province 26 July 1909 – Mar del Plata 15 November 2002) From German descent MEDICINE With S. Mazza defined three anatomo-clinical periods in Chagas disease (1940) With Ramón S. Freire. Lipochagomata genii or lipochagomata of the cheeks, characteristic lesions of acute trypanosomiasis cruzi in children under three years of age (1961) With S. Mazza. Sobre nodulos de histiocitosis en el higado de perro inoculado con Schizotryp. cruzi de origem humano. Publ. MEPRA 15:1-24, 1934 (Mazza-Jorg nodular hepatitis) METHODS With E.L. Lanari & J.A. Aguirre. La impregnación visceral mediante sales radioactivas. Metodo de exploración radiologica (1937) La aparición de fibrillas conjuntivas reticulares en cultivos mixtos de mioblastos y células epiteliales. Nueva tecnica de explantación por micromanipulación (1932) Coeficiente de absorción de rayos luminosos, visibles por elementos citológicos, en especial células pigmentarias. Nueva tecnica por microespectrofotometria para su determinación. Sem. Med. (1931) MICROSCOPICAL ANATOMY Quimiorreceptor osmosensible en larvas de Morpho catenarius argentinus Fruhstorfer 1907. Neotropica 6(20):41-8, 1960 Anatomia microscopica de glandulas cerigenas en orugas de Artace obumbata Kohler (1951) Un organo de especial diferenciación anatomomicroscopica en la ruga de Morpho catenarius argentinus (Lep. Rhop. Morphidae). Acta Zool. Lilloana 5:131-6, 1948 Sobre una morfologia glandular y una diferenciación sensorial en la oruga de Morpho catenarius argentinus Fruhs. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Arg. 13(1-5):359-60, 1947 La presencia de simbiontes en los ovulos de peces de la Argentina. Physis 39:305-6, 19?? Las nervuras hemielitrales de los Triatomidae. Physis 17:245-52, 1939 Tiroides del ñandu: embriogenesis y estructura macroscopica (1935) La estructura histologica del esbozo ganglionar supraesofagico y de la cadena neuroganglionar ventral de la oruga de Hylesia nigricans Berg (Lepid, Hem) 1934 Consideraciones histofisiologicas sobre los ojos de los insectos (Polybia scutellaris White y Euterme sp.). Rev. Soc. Entomol. Arg. 5(2-3), 1932 Contribución a la citologia hematica de los peces, reptiles y batracios argentinos (1931) La existencia de una glandula epitelial tipoparatiroidea, satelite del timo Metamorfosis de Concampa olcosta Schauss, 1930 (Lep, Notodontidae), con el estudio histologico de un aparato tricoglandular de la oruga Las terminaciones nerviosas de Elaeochlora viridicata (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat DESCRIBED SPECIES Protozoa Haemogregarina rojasi 1931 Haemoproteus glaucidium 1931 Haemoproteus houssayi 1931 Ichthyophthirius megastoma 1931 Nyctotheroides mazzai 1930 Trypanosoma birabeni 1960 Hemiptera Genus Mepraia 1940 with Mazza & Gajardo Tobar Triatoma mazzae 1937 Triatoma bruchi 1944 with Mazza HONORS Jorgcoris Carpintero 1980 (Hemiptera)
Michel Abu Jamra
Michel Abu Jamra, Brazilian hematologist (São Paulo 13 August 1916 – São Paulo 10 June 1999) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 250 works Developed techniques for studying anaemias, coagulopathies and oncohematological diseases With V. Maspes & Z.J. Gomes. Shaking as a means of enhancing or revealing anti-erythrocyte antibodies (1956) With G. Hoxter, J.I. Araújo & V. Maspes. The solubility test for abnormal hemoglobins: method, evaluation and significance in various hemoglobinopathies. Sangre (1966) With G. Hoxter & F. Ventura. Hemoglobin: determination using the cyanmethemoglobin method. Use of an artificial solution for the calibration of colorimetric instruments. Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. 22 (Suppl.): 303-4, 1967 With O.C. Barretto & K. Nonoyama. Improved turbidity technique for the determination of lysozyme activity. Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 31(6):446-8, 1976 Proposed another type of megakaryocytic formula Established the types and mechanisms of anemia in schistosomiasis mansoni With V. Maspes & D.A. Meira. Types and mechanisms of anemia in schistosomiasis mansoni. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. São Paulo 6:126-36, 1964 The first report about sickle cell anemia without gastric achylia With C. Bottura & L.M. Ferreira. Anemia falciforme: considerações em torno de um caso (1944) Defined ganglionic fever as a lymphatic reticulo-endotheliosis With J. Oria. Contribuição para o estudo das células sanguíneas e do quadro histológico hematopoiético da mononucleose infectuosa (febre ganglionar de Pfeiffer-Glanzmann). An. Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo 15:33-64, 1939 HONOURS Alfredo Pavlovsky Award, International Society of Hematology (1984) President, 14th Congress of International Society of Hematology (1972)
Luiz Carlos Junqueira
Luiz Carlos Uchoa Junqueira, Brazilian cytologist and histologist (São Paulo 05 August 1920 – Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais State 06 October 2006) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed many important works about protein production in pancreas that became him known worldwide (1950s) With G.C. Hirsch & A. Rothschild established the kinetics of protein synthesis process in pancreas With M. Rabinovitch & F.T. Mendes. Cytochemical demonstration of “acid” phosphatase in bone marrow smears. Science 107(2778):322-3, 1948 First showed the secretion hormone control of a digestive enzyme With A. Fajer, M. Rabinovich & L. Frankenthal. Biochemical and histochemical observations on the sexual dimorphism of mice submaxillary glands. J. Cell. Comp. Phys. 34:129-57, 1949 With H. Haselmann, S. Raia, A. Sesso et al. A method for microcinematography of secretory processes in the pancreas of the white mouse. Mikroskopie 8(11-2):400-5, 1953 Demonstrated that granulations of mast cells store histamine With I. Mota e Albuquerque, W.T. Beraldo & R.G. Ferri. Intracellular distribution of histamine. Nature 174:698-9, 1954 Demonstrated the importance of microtubules and microfilaments in intracellular transport processes (1970-8) Demonstrated a relationship between the histology of the salivary ducts and ion composition of the saliva With G. Vignolas & R.R. Brentani. A simple and sensitive method for the quantitative estimation of collagen. Anal. Biochem. 94:96-9, 1979 Developed Picrosirius polarization method or Junqueira staining With G. Vignolas & R. R. Brentani. Picrosirius staining of polarization microscopy, a specific method for collagen detection in tissue sections. Histochem. Journal 11: 447-55, 1979 Described a method for characterization of Type I, II & III collagens in electron microscope With G.S. Montes & R.M. Krisztan. The collagen of vertebrate peripheral nervous system. Cell Tissue Res. 202:453-60, 1979 Developed the first method to quantify collagen-proteoglycan interaction in tissue sections With G. Bignolas, P.A.S. Mourão & S.S. Bonetti. Quantitation of collagen-proteoglycan interaction in tissue sections. Connect. Tiss. Res. 7:91-6, 1980 Demonstrated definitively that reticular fiber is distinct of collagen fiber With G.S. Montes, R.M. Krisztan, K.M. Shigihara, R. Tokoro & P.A.S. Mourão. Histochemical and morphological characterization of reticular fibers. Histochemistry 65:131-41, 1980 Elucidated the process of uterine cervix softening at parturition With M. Zugaib, G.S. Montes, O.M.S. Toledo, R.M. Krisztan & K.M. Shigihara. Morphologhic and histochemical evidence for the occurrence of colagenolysis and for the role of neutrophilic polymorphonuclear leukocytes during cervical dilation. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 138:273, 1980 Presented first analysis about biological importance of collagen-proteoglycan interaction in various biological models With G.S. Montes et al. demonstrated the distribution and architecture of collagen in cartilages, nerves, arteries and skin (1979-89) Established definitively collagen architecture in mammalian cartilages With N.Z. Zambrano, K.M. Shigihara, E.M. Sanchez & G.S. Montes. Collagen arrangement in cartilages. Acta Anat. 113:26-38, 1982 Elucidated the nature of skeletal elements in tail fin ray of teleosts showing that they display all the morphological and histochemical features of a cartilaginous tissue With J. Becerra, O.M.S. Toledo, M.A. Gordilho & G.S. Montes. Fine structure and histochemistry of the tail fin ray in teleosts. Histochem 75:363-76, 1982 Showed that collagen molecules are orderly disposed in basal laminae With G.S. Montes, R.R. Brentani, O.M.S.Toledo et al. Evidence for collagen molecular orientation in basement membranes. Histochem. J. 15:785-94, 1983 Described a new type of acellular cartilage found in arterious cone of Potamotrygon sp. With O.M.S. Toledo & G.S. Montes. Histochemical and morphological studies on a new type of acellular cartilage. Basic Appl. Histochem. 27:1-8, 1983 First to describe morphological differences between the distinct types of intermediate filaments With G.S. Montes, P.P. Joazeiro, S.M. O. Vieira, A.B. Costa Silva & A. Cais. Specific attachment of morphologically-distinct intermediate filaments to desmosomes and hemidesmosomes in the epidermis of the tadpole of the anuran Pseudis paradoxus. J. Submicrosc. Cytol. 16:643-8, 1984 Proposed a precise method for osteid distinction and characterization With M.T. Assis Figueiredo, H. Torloni & G.S. Montes. Differential diagnosis of osteid. A study on human osteosarcoma collagen by the histochemical Picrosirius-polarization method. J. Pathol. 148(2):189-96, 1986 First report of the histology of epidermal glands in amphisbaenians With M.M. Antoniazzi & C. Jared. Epidermal glands in squamata: fine structure of pre-cloacal glands in Amphisbaena alba (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae). J. Morphol. 221(1):101-9, 1994 Reported improvements in microscopy With M.D. A. Silva & H. Torloni. A simple procedure to obtain one-micrometer sections of routinely embedded paraffin material. Stain Technol. 64:39-42, 1995 Histology revisited. Technical improvement promoted by the use of hydrophilic resin embedding. Ciencia e Cultura 47:92-95, 1995 Other papers in renowned periodicals With I. Mota, W.T. Beraldo & R.G. Ferri. Action of peptone on mast cells of the dog. Nature 173(4403):547-8, 1954 With M.P. Rabinovitch & H.A. Rothschild. Influence of testosterone on nucleic acid phosphorus of rat seminal vesicle. Science 114 (2969):551-2, 1951 Authored Atlas de Anatomia Microscopica do Rato (Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy of Mouse) in the first publication of this kind in international literature (1947) With J. Carneiro da Silva authored Histologia Básica (Basic Histology), translated into 17 languages and used worldwide in many medicine schools OTHERS Honorary Research Associate, Harvard University (1975) Honorary Member, American Association of Anatomists (1988)