Published “Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach” in BMC Medical Research Methodology — cited 9,278 times.
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Lina Solomonovna Stern or Shtern was a Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on the blood–brain barrier, which she described as hemato-encephalic barrier in 1921.
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science · Soviet biochemist · biochemist · physiologist · physician · university teacher · chemist · also Lina Stern, Lina Solomonovna Stern, Lina S. Stern, Stern
Born 14 July 1878 · Died 7 March 1968 · Q465706
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Published “Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach” in BMC Medical Research Methodology — cited 9,278 times.
Published “MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease” in Movement Disorders — cited 7,086 times.
Published “Bayesian Data Analysis” — cited 6,871 times.
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,807 times.
Published “Toward defining the preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease” in Alzheimer's & Dementia — cited 6,145 times.
Published “Movement Disorder Society‐sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS‐UPDRS): Scale presentation and clinimetric testing results” in Movement Disorders — cited 6,957 times.
Published “Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation” in Reviews of Modern Physics — cited 6,082 times.
Published “New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior” in Journal of Social Issues — cited 6,965 times.
Published “Electronic properties of two-dimensional systems” in Reviews of Modern Physics — cited 6,930 times.
Died 1968-03-07.
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By the Ministry of State Security (MGB) and interrogated by the head of MGB Viktor Abakumov
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944).
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1943).
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Became the first female full member, academician, of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
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A new Institute of physiology was opened in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and Stern became the director
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Accepts and arrives in Moscow on March 31, 1925
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Stern introduced the term "blood-brain barrier" at the Medical Society of Geneva
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A new department of Physiological Chemistry was established, and Lina Stern became the head of it
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The two performed systematic experiments on the movement of various substances from the blood into the nervous system and estimated the extent to which these substances were able to permeate the brain
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Battelli and Stern, along with Torsten Thunberg, “discovered that minced animal tissues contain substances that can transfer hydrogen atoms from specific intracellular organic acids to methylene blue dye, reducing it to
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Wrote her doctoral dissertation on motor function of the urethra and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine
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Stern studied at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Lina Stern was born in Liepāja (today Liepāja, Latvia), the largest city in the Courland Region situated in western Latvia (Other sources noted she was born in Vilijampole district of Kaunas in 1875 and studied in Liepāj
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Born 1878-07-14.
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