An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

GOWANS, Sir James Learmonth

2 entries
  • 2578.21

The effects of the continuous re-infusion of lymph and lymphocytes on the output of lymphocytes from the thoracic duct of unanaesthetized rats.

Brit. J. exp. Path., 38, 67-78, 1957.

Gowans’s work, particularly between 1957 and 1962, was mainly responsible for the fusion of studies on the lymphocytes with the mainstream of immunology. The above paper dealt with the recirculation of lymphocytes. See also J. Physiol. (Lond.), 1959, 146, 54-69.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY
  • 2578.33

Initiation of immune responses by small lymphocytes.

Nature, 196, 651-55, 1962.

Gowans and colleagues showed that the lymphocyte is the immunologically competent cell. 



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY