An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 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