Morphology and art in the work of Lelio Orci

Domenico Ribatti; John Heuser

doi:10.1016/j.tice.2022.101902

Morphology and art in the work of Lelio Orci

Tissue Cell. 2022 Oct:78:101902. doi: 10.1016/j.tice.2022.101902. Epub 2022 Aug 19.

Authors

Domenico Ribatti¹, John Heuser²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sensory Organs,University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.ribatti@uniba.it.
² Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Electronic address: jheuser@wustl.edu.

PMID: 36007379
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2022.101902

Abstract

Lelio Orci, chairman of the Department of Morphology at the University of Geneva Medical School in Switzerland, was one of the most eminent morphologists of the last century, author of fundamental contributions to the study of microanatomy, especially regarding the ultrastructure of the endocrine pancreas and of the molecular mechanisms of cell secretion. In his work, Orci transformed EM-ultrastructure into a creative art form. The aim of this article is to demonstrate, through a few examples of the scientific work of this extraordinary scientist the reality of this assertion.

Keywords: Art; Cell secretion; Endocrine pancreas; Freeze etching; Golgi complex; Microscopy.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Islets of Langerhans*