THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ODAU SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL AREAS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Physiology is the leading place among the medical and biological sciences and, of course, the central place among the fundamental disciplines included in the education system of medical and veterinary specialists. Despite the rapid development of genetics, immunology, neurology, population and molecular biology, physiology remains the basic pillar on which the above sciences rest. The development of physiology begins with the development of medicine and contains many outstanding and tragic pages. In Ukraine, the development of physiology is associated with such scientists as I. Sechenov, I. Mechnikov, M. Vedenskyi, O. Walter, V. Chagovets, V. Pradovych-Neminskyi, H. Folbort. Odessa was one of the significant centers of development of physiological science. Among Odessa physiologists-scientists, it is impossible not to mention the already mentioned I. Sechenov and I. Mechnikov, besides them, a whole galaxy of outstanding physiologists worked in Odessa: P. Spiro, B. Verigo, I. Beritov, V. Zavyalov, B. Babkin , D. Vorontsov, I. Kupalov, A. Melik-Megrabov, E.I. Sinelnikov. Some of these scientists worked at Odesa State Agrarian University - B. Babkin, E. Synelnikov, B. Verigo, L. Yegunov. The last fifty years of the history of the Department of Physiology of Odesa State Agrarian University are associated with the names of professors I. Samoilenko and B. Smolyaninov, the sphere of their scientific interests concerned the processes of thermoregulation, digestion, energy processes in the cell.