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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Louis Pasteur and Silkworm Disease (1865--1870) |
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1.2 Current knowledge about silkworms and pebrine disease |
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1.3 A disaster announced in France for silkworm farms |
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1.4 Knowledge acquired on pebrine in the 19th Century |
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1.5 Louis Pasteur's work on pebrine |
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1.5.1 Louis Pasteur's career before 1865 |
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1.5.2 1865: the discovery of pepper disease (pebrine) |
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1.5.3 1866: what problems to solve? |
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1.5.4 1867: the first results obtained on pebrine |
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1.5.5 1868: industrial egg laying and flacherie disease |
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1.5.6 1869: having his method approved by rearers |
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1.5.7 1870: Villa Vicentina in Italy |
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Chapter 2 Ilya Metchnikov at the Pasteur Institute (1886--1916) |
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2.2 Ilya Metchnikov's biography |
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67 | (4) |
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2.3 The discovery of phagocytosis, the basis of immunity, in Messina |
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2.4 Search for a phagocytic function in vivo |
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2.5 Metchnikov in search of a place of freedom to conduct his work |
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2.6 1887: a meeting with Louis Pasteur |
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2.7 Metchnikov at the Pasteur Institute: affirming his conceptions |
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2.8 Metchnikov, a quality teacher-researcher: steps towards the Nobel Prize (1908) |
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Chapter 3 The Post-Metchnikov Era at the Pasteur Institute (1920--1940) |
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3.2 The researchers trained by I. Metchnikov |
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3.2.1 Alexandre Besredka, Metchnikov's official successor |
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3.2.2 Jules Bordet (1870--1961) Nobel Prize 1919 |
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3.2.3 Jean Cantacuzene (1863--1934), the Franco-Romanian student |
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3.2.4 Felix Mesnil (1868--1938), Head of Department at the Pasteur Institute |
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3.3 Creation of a group on Insect immunity |
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3.3.1 Serguei Metalnikov (1870--1946): his scientific career before 1918 |
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3.3.2 S. Metalnikov's work on Insects |
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3.3.3 S. Metalnikov's collaborators |
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Chapter 4 Andre Paillot against the "Phagocytic" Dogma: Humoral Immunity |
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4.2.2 Rudolph W. Glaser in the United States |
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4.3 Andre Paillot (1885--1944), the rebel |
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4.3.2 Andre Paillot's work on the humoral immunity of Insects |
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4.4.1 The work of Vladimir Zernoff |
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4.4.2 The work of Andre Charles Holland in Nancy |
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4.4.3 The work of Emile Couvreur in Lyon |
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Chapter 5 The Crossing of the Desert for Invertebrate Immunity (1960--1990) |
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5.2 The humoral immunity of Insects in North America |
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5.3 Research in France on the innate immunity of Insects |
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5.3.1 The comparative pathology laboratory (Saint-Christol-les-Ales) |
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5.3.2 The biological control laboratory at the Pasteur Institute |
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5.3.3 The CNRS Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (Gif-sur-Yvette) |
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5.4 Transplantation: the "door opener" expected by Invertebrate immunologists |
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5.5 Wanting to do well, results discussed and questioned |
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Chapter 6 The Strasbourg Laboratory: Towards the Nobel Prize (2011) |
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6.2 The Strasbourg laboratory in the 1960s and 1980s |
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6.3 The recruitment of Jules Hoffmann |
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6.4 The work oriented towards the Insect's molting hormone: ecdysone |
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6.5 Early work on locust immunity |
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6.6 Hans Boman's laboratory, Stockholm University (Sweden) |
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6.7 Establishment of an "Insect Immunity" team in the Strasbourg laboratory |
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6.8 The entire laboratory switch to "all-immunity" |
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6.8.1 Identification of antibacterial factors (AMPs) in Drosophila |
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6.8.2 How are the genes encoding these antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) controlled and expressed? |
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6.8.3 How does the Insect perceive the aggression of the pathogen, and can it discriminate between these different aggressions? |
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6.9 The 2011 Nobel Prize Award recognizing innate immunity |
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Conclusion |
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Index |
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