Regeneration SZN History
Regeneration research at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli,
a selection (1873-1970s)
(1873 – 1964)
by Ariane Dröscher
1872 - Kleinenberg Nikolaus: Hydra, eine anatomisch-entwicklungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, Leipzig: Verlag W. Engelmann.
(He made this research before coming to Naples; he called the specific cells he considered responsible for initiating the regenerative process 'interstitielle Zellen')
1891 - Loeb Jacques: Untersuchungen zur physiologischen Mophologie der Tiere. I. Über Heteromorphose, Würzburg: Georg Hertz.
(on regeneration in tubularian hydroids; he made the relative experiments 1889-1890 at the SZN)
1895-96 Driesch Hans: Zur Analysis der Potenzen embryonaler Organzellen, in «Archiv für Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen», 2: 169-203.
(on the gastrula of Sphaerecchinus)
1898 - Morgan Thomas H.: Experimental studies of the regeneration of Planaria maculata. Archiv für Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen, 7: 364-397.
(seminal study on the regeneration of Planaria; Morgan was in Naples 1894-95, 1900 and 1902, but these studies were made at Woods Hole)
1901 - Driesch Hans: Die organischen Regulationen. Vorbereitungen zu einer Theorie des Lebens. Leipzig: Verlag W. Engelmann.
(contains important parts of his general concepts of development and regeneration, like the idea of the de-differentiation of cells)
1901 - Hans Przibram: Experimentelle Studien über Regeneration. Archiv für Entwickelungs-mechanik der Organismen 11: 321-345.
(on Alpheus)
1902 - Driesch Hans: Studien über das Regulationsvermögen der Organismen. 6. Die Restitution der Clavellina lepadiformis. Archiv für Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen 14: 247.
(one of many works of Driesch)
1904 - Godlewski Emil jun.: Zur Kenntnis der Regulationsvorgänge bei Tubularia mesembryanthum. Archiv für Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen 18: 111-160.
1905a - Zeleny Charles: Compensatory regulation. J. exp. Zool. 2: 1-102.
(Research on regulation and the interaction between the parts of a body during the regeneration in the fiddler crab Gelasimus pugilator; carried out at Woods Hole and Naples under the direction of Davenport, Wilson and Morgan)
1905b - Zeleny Charles: The relation of the degree of injury to the rate of re generation. J. exp. Zool. 2: 347-369.
1929 - Peebles Florence: Growth regulating substances in Echinoderm larvae. Biological Bulletin 25: 176-187.
(carried out in Naples and in Woods Hole)
1929 - Sereni Enrico: Fenomeni fisiologici consecutivi alla sezione dei nervi nei cefalopodi. Bollettino della Società Italiana di Biologia sperimentale 3: 1304ff
1932 - Sereni Enrico and John Zachary Young: Nervous degeneration and regeneration in cephalopods. Pubbl. Staz. Zool. Napoli 12: 173-208.
(the famous work on the regeneration of the stellar nerve)
1940 - Callan Harold Garnett: The absence of a sex-hormone controlling regeneration of the hectocotylus in Octopus vulgaris Lam. Pubbl. Staz. Zool. Napoli 18: 15-19.
1941a Monroy Alberto: Fenomeni elettrici e polarità nei tritoni adulti. Bollettino della Società Italiana di Biologia sperimentale 16: 296-298.
1941b - Monroy Alberto : Ricerche sulle correnti elettriche derivabili dalla superficie del corpo di tritoni adulti normali e durante la rigenerazione degli arti e della coda. Pubbl. Staz. Zool. Napoli 18: 265-281.
(seminal study on the effect of electricity on regeneration)
1941b - Monroy Alberto : "Ricerche sulle correnti elettriche derivabili dalla superficie del corpo di tritoni adulti normali e durante la rigenerazione degli arti e della coda". Pubbl. Staz. Zool. Napoli 18, pp. 265-281.
1942 - Monroy Alberto & F. Oddo: Il potenziale morfogenetico dei muscoli nella rigenerazione degli arti e della coda nei tritoni. Bollettino della Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale 17.
1970s - Monroy Alberto the cellular and molecular bases of embryological development, cell differentiation and regeneration.