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Mohammad Reza Namazi, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(9):1109.

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Paul Langerhans was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1847, the son of a well-known physician.¹ He studied medicine at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany, and at the University of Berlin and was a pupil of Rudolph Virchow.¹ He made an outstanding contribution to medicine by describing Langerhans cells while he was a 21-year-old undergraduate student.² Because these branched cells, which were interspersed throughout the epidermis, were demonstrated by a stain for which nervous tissue has a particular affinity, ie, gold chloride, he suggested that they could be intraepidermal receptors of extracutaneous signals to the nervous system.² Today, the precision of his observation and his description of the cells seem incredible, when his drawings of 1868, which were made with the use of a primitive light microscope, are compared with the reproductions that can now be obtained with immunofluorescence.These cells were an enigma to dermatologists . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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