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  • Inside the liver, cells called Kupffer cells filter and remove bacteria from your blood.

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

  • Der wohl anführende Mahler: welcher curiöse Liebhaber lehret, wie man sich zur Mahlerey zubereiten, mit Oel-Farben umgehen, Gründe, Fürnisse und andere darzu nöthige Sachen verfertigen, die Gemählde geschickt auszieren, vergülden, versilbern, accurat lacquiren, und saubere Kupffer-Stiche ausarbeiten solle.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Kowalevsky's results were accepted by Haeckel, Gegenbaur, Darwin, [391] and many others as conclusive evidence of the origin of Vertebrates from a form resembling the ascidian tadpole; they were extended and amplified by Kupffer [392] in 1870, later by van Beneden and Julin [393] and numerous other workers; they were adversely criticised by

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • The lining endothelium consists of irregularly branched, disconnected cells (stellate cells of Kupffer).

    XI. Splanchnology. 2i. The Liver 1918

  • So far as I.am aware, von Kupffer is the only observer who has given this startling conclusion support, in his famous "Studien" (Hf.I. Kopf Acipenser, Munchen, 1893), and from the nature of other recent work on the genesis of parts of the cranium hitherto thought to be wholly trabecular in origin, it might well be further upheld.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • So far as I.am aware, von Kupffer is the only observer who has given this startling conclusion support, in his famous "Studien" (Hf.I. Kopf Acipenser, Munchen, 1893), and from the nature of other recent work on the genesis of parts of the cranium hitherto thought to be wholly trabecular in origin, it might well be further upheld.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • The accurate and extremely careful observations of the authors I have mentioned (Goette, Rauber, and Duval) have decisively proved this recently for the birds; and the same has been done for the reptiles by the fine studies of Kupffer, Beneke, Wenkebach, and others.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Kupffer and Keibel's on the rodents, Bonnet's on the ruminants, etc.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • These, however, have been mastered by the comparative embryological research which has been conducted by a number of distinguished observers during the last few decades -- especially the brothers Hertwig, Rabl, Kupffer, Selenka,

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Emphasis will be on understanding the rules governing hepatic innate immune response, particularly on the role of Kupffer cells in modulating local anti-pathogen immunity.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2009

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