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    Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist...
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  • postnatal life. These cells were discovered by two scientists, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Gustaf Retzius, at two different times and in different species...
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    Alfonso XIII on the occasion of the Moscow Prize to Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934). Following Cajal's award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine...
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    largely consist of proteins and RNA. They were first reported by Santiago Ramón y Cajal in 1903, who called them nucleolar accessory bodies due to their...
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  • Argentine boxer Santiago de la Parte, Spanish long-distance runner Santiago Phelan, Argentine rugby player and coach Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist...
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    Golgi method. Golgi staining was used by Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) to discover a number of novel facts about the organization...
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    individual cells, a discovery due to decisive neuro-anatomical work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and later presented by, among others, H. Waldeyer-Hartz. The term...
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    intestinal pseudo-obstruction. The interstitial cells of Cajal are named after Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate. List of human...
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    work of the Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. To make the structure of individual neurons visible, Ramón y Cajal improved a silver staining process...
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  • theory was refuted by later observations of a Spanish pathologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, using a staining technique discovered by Golgi, which showed that...
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    intricate structures of individual neurons. His technique was used by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and led to the formation of the neuron doctrine, the hypothesis...
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    features are now commonly referred to as the Nodes of Ranvier. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish anatomist, proposed that axons were the output components...
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    Physiology or Medicine was awarded to histologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal. They had conflicting interpretations of the neural structure of...
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    organ and the Golgi tendon reflex. Golgi and the Spanish biologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal were jointly given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906...
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  • The Ramón y Cajal Scholarship (RyC) is a Spanish post-doctoral scholarship, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, that allows outstanding early career...
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    infection. Pyramidal neurons were first discovered and studied by Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Since then, studies on pyramidal neurons have focused on topics...
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    The Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal is a public general hospital located in the Valverde neighborhood, in Madrid, Spain, part of the hospital network...
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    laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal. It is a circular (9 km diameter), cup-shaped formation that lies southeast of the lava-inundated crater Jansen. Cajal was...
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  • Cajal: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist, physician, pathologist Fortún Garcés Cajal, medieval Spanish nobleman Nicolae Cajal (1919–2004), Romanian...
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    dendrites also synapse with distinctive unmyelinated axons which Santiago Ramón y Cajal called mossy fibers Mossy fibers and golgi cells both make synaptic...
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    form in the absence of new neurons. The Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal was among the first to suggest a mechanism of learning that did...
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    1016/S1474-4422(05)00990-7. PMID 15664541. S2CID 16367031. Ramón y Cajal, Santiago (1898). "Estructura del quiasma óptico y teoría general de los entrecruzamientos de...
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    map theory was published by the famous neuroscientist and pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1898). (See also and for English summaries.) According to this...
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    sailor, designer of the first fully operative military submarine Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), father of Neuroscience, Nobel prize laureate (1906)...
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    Their existence was originally proposed by Spanish histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal based upon stationary images he observed under the microscope. He...
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    inside the brain. Already in the late 19th century theorists like Santiago Ramón y Cajal argued that the most plausible explanation is that learning and...
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  • Ochoa (1905–1993). Neuroscience by Nobel prize Laureate (1906) Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934). Discovery of the microglia or Hortega cell by the neuroscientist...
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    doctorate and helped establish neuron doctrine. Later, neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on the same...
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    of the Nobel Prize laureate and father of modern neuroscience Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá and the Cuban national hero...
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    Santiago Ramón y Cajal defined a "third element" (cell type) besides neurons and astrocytes. Pío del Río Hortega, a student of Santiago Ramón y Cajal...
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