Leopold Auerbach

• Published in: Lancet neurology Vol. 19; no. 9; p. 723
• Main Authors: Wincewicz, Andrzej, Woltanowski, Piotr
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Elsevier Ltd 01-09-2020; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Cardiac muscle; Enteric nervous system; Ganglion cells; Myenteric plexus; Germany
• ISSN: 1474-4422; 1474-4465
• DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30266-0

Remak discovered ganglion cells in the right atrial wall in the vicinity of cardiac muscles, and Auerbach went on to find groupings of ganglion cells at the interface of circular and longitudinal layers of tunica muscularis propria (the myenteric plexus; known as Auerbach's plexus). [...]of his own limited resources, Auerbach equipped two rooms of his apartment to function as a laboratory, on the third floor of tenement house, on former Agnesstrasse 2 (now Michał Bałucki street). [...]it is not surprising that his post-doctoral habilitation thesis referred to the muscular elements of avian gizzards, in 1863.