Alexander Maximow’s reflection in his followers scientific works

Abstract

The contribution of the Russian histologist and pathologist Alexander Alexandrovich Maximow (1874–1928) to domestic and world science and practice is undoubted and recognized in the world. His research on the pathology of inflammation, the phylogeny of hematopoiesis, and the cyto- and histophysiology of connective tissue, he performed by experimental-histological and cultural methods more than 110 years ago. Their results made it possible to approve the dominance of the monophyletic model of hematopoiesis, to develop the doctrine of the reticuloendothelial system, and to obtain valuable data on the concept of mesenchymal reserve in the tissues of an adult organism.A.A. Maximow lived a short but extremely busy life. Many of his breakthrough results became the starting point for development by his immediate employees and ideological successors; among them are outstanding names: N.N. Anichkov, N.G. Khlopin, A.A. Zavarzin, V.M. Danchakova and other prominent researchers.Key achievements of A.A. Maximow are in the foundation of basic approaches to the development of therapeutic cellular technologies of our time.