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SHTERN, LINA SQLOMONQVNA (Physiologist) 



L. S. Shtern was born August 26, 1878 in Libava (Latvian 

 S.S.R.)- After graduating in 1903 from the University of Geneva, 

 she remained there to work and in 1917 became a professor. 

 In 1925 she moved to the U. S.S.R. and from 1925 to 1949 was 

 professor at the Second Moscow Medical Institute (until 1930 

 the Medical Department of the Second Moscow University). 

 About the same time, 1929-1949, she was also Director of the 

 Institute of Physiology. In 1954 Shtern started working at the 

 Institute of Biological Physics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences. She has been a member of the Communist Party of the 

 Soviet Union since 1938. She is an Academician of the Ukraini- 

 an S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1939 was elected Acade- 

 mician of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1944 a mem- 

 ber of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medical Sciences. She was an 

 Honored Scientist of the R.S.F.S.R. in 1934, and in 1954 she was 

 a recipient of a Stalin Prize. 



Shtern studied the chemical basis of physiological process- 

 es. Jointly with the Swiss scientist, F. Batteli, she investigated 

 the respiration of isolated tissues and elucidated the role of 

 various catalysts (in particular the catalase system) in biologi- 

 cal oxidation. Shtern and her associates studied the hemato- 

 encephalitic (blood-marrow) barrier which regulates the for- 

 mation and the composition of cerebrospinal liquid. 

 Bibliography: 



and others . Hematoencephalitic barrier. Collection of 

 Works. Moscow-Leningrad: 1935. 



Histohematic barriers. Regulators of the Direct Medium of 

 the Organs. Moscow-Leningrad: 1938 (Works of the Insti- 

 tute of Physiology, 3). 



Role of metabolites in regulating the functions of an organ- 

 ism, Regulators of the Direct Medium of the Organs. 

 Moscow-Leningrad: 1938 (Works of the Institute of Physi- 

 ology, 3, 238-249). 



Direct nutritive medium of the organs and tissues and its 

 regulating factors. Direct Medium of Organs and Tissues. 

 Moscow-Leningrad: 1947 (Works of the Institute of Physi- 

 ology, 4). 



Active interference in physiological processes, Direct Medi- 

 um of Organs and Tissues. Moscow-Leningrad: 1947 (Works 

 of the Institute of Physiology, 4, 403-415). 



