Michael Steinhausen

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Michael Steinhausen (born June 28, 1930 in Greifswald ) is a German physiologist and emeritus professor of physiology at the University of Heidelberg . He is the son of the physiologist Wilhelm Steinhausen and grandson of the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen .

Life

After graduating from high school (1949) at the humanistic Friedrich Ludwig Jahn grammar school in Greifswald and a three-year music course with a major in flute at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin-Charlottenburg , he began studying medicine at the Free University of Berlin in 1952 , which he passed the state examination in 1958 completed. The doctorate in Kiel in 1958 with the pathologist Wilhelm Doerr and the license to practice medicine in Heidelberg in 1960 followed in 1966 the habilitation for the subject physiology with Hans Schaefer with a thesis: The tubular urine flow (shown with special consideration of intravital microscopic examinations of rats, cats and golden hamster kidneys) . He remained loyal to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , at which Steinhausen was appointed professor in 1972, until his retirement in 1995; Research stays took him to the Department of Physiology at Cornell Medical School in New York (USA) (1965/66) and as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (USA) (1976) and at the University of Arizona in Tucson (USA) ) (1982).

Act

The department of Steinhausen at the Physiological Institute of the University of Heidelberg became a worldwide center for microcirculation and kidney physiology under his leadership . He is one of the co-founders of the Society for Microcirculation and was its chairman in 1976, 1987 and 1992.

In terms of university politics, Steinhausen was involved in the development of a new basic order for his university (1969) as a lecturer representative a. a. for the "unity of the habilitated teaching body". Later he was for many years (1980-1994) Chairman of the Grand Senate of Heidelberg University.

Since 1980 the passionate musician has been conducting the Heidelberger Doctors Orchestra eV, which has become a popular part of Heidelberg's cultural life with its concerts that take place twice a year (winter and summer concerts). By combining music and social issues (free entry and collection for charitable purposes), the orchestra and its conductor were awarded the badge of honor by the North Baden District Medical Association (ÄBW 08-385-2016).

Steinhausen is the author of the textbook Medical Physiology , which was first published in 1986 by JF Bergmann, Munich, in the 4th edition in 1996 by Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart and in the 5th edition together with Erich Gulbins in Ecomed, Landsberg 2003.

Scientific work

Steinhausen is the author of more than 130 publications, over 160 original scientific lectures at many international congresses and symposia, as well as 9 scientific films and educational films.

The scientific focus of Steinhausen's work was the tubular urine flow in the kidney , the regulation of the microcirculation in the kidney and acute kidney failure .

In the 1960s, Steinhausen developed a new method using the vital pigment lissamine green, with which the various sections of the nephron could be displayed in vivo and passage times for the tubular urine flow could be measured. This method quickly found international dissemination, especially in the very widespread micropunction technique for elucidating kidney function.

In order to capillary blood flow in the glomeruli of the kidney to measure developed Steinhausen in the eighties, the method of split hydronephrotic rat kidney, which made it possible for the first time, the microcirculation of the kidney as a whole, so renal glomeruli and their incoming and laxative vessels in to observe and study in vivo . This work led to completely new insights into the autoregulation of the renal vessels, the architecture of the glomerulus and the physiological and pathophysiological regulation of kidney blood flow z. B. by angiotensin , dopamine , endothelin , nitric oxide or inflammation mediators .

Based on the methods developed by Steinhausen for the in vivo visualization of blood vessels of the kidneys, he also dealt with the microcirculation in a beating heart.

Honors and memberships

  • Founding and honorary member of the Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology
  • 1968 Gold Medal from the British Medical Association
  • Prize of the Soviet Union at the 25th Annual Congress of the International Scientific Film Association in Kiev in 1971
  • Malpighi Prize of the European Society for Microcirculation 1976
  • Dr. hc from the University of Louisville (USA) 1990
  • University medal from the University of Heidelberg in 1994
  • Albert Schweitzer Medal of the Baden-Württemberg State Medical Association 2006

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Medical Faculty Heidelberg: Emeriti and professors in retirement. In: www.medizinische-fakultaet-hd.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The man who would be king. (PDF) Heidelberger Studentenzeitung, 1992, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  3. ^ City of Heidelberg: heidelberg.de - listing orchestras and instrumental ensembles. In: www.heidelberg.de. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ ÄBW issues 2016. In: www.aerztekammer-bw.de. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Michael Steinhausen, Erich Gulbins: Medical Physiology: Textbook on the new subject catalog and the current IMPP examination questions . 5., completely redesigned. Edition. ecomed Medizin, Landsberg 2003, ISBN 3-609-16052-7 ( dnb.de [accessed October 29, 2016]).
  6. ↑ M. Steinhausen: A method for differentiating proximal and distal tubules of the renal cortex of rats in vivo and its application for determining tubular flow velocities . In: Pflüger's archive . tape 277 . Springer, 1963, p. 23-35 .
  7. ↑ M. Steinhausen, H. Snoei, N. Parekh, R. Baker, PC Johnson: Hydronephrosis: a new method to visualize vas afferens, efferens, and glomerular network . In: Kidney Int. tape 23 , no. 6 , 1983, pp. 794-806 .
  8. ↑ M. Steinhausen, H. Kücherer, N: Parekh, S. Weis, DL Wiegman, KR Wilhelm: Angiotensin II control of the renal microcirculation: effect of blockade by saralasin . In: Kidney Int. tape 30 , no. 1 , 1986, pp. 56-61 .
  9. ↑ M. Steinhausen, S. Weis, J. Fleming, R. Dussel, N. Parekh: Responses of in vivo renal microvessels to dopamine . In: Kidney Int. tape 30 , no. 3 , 1986, pp. 361-370 .
  10. ↑ M. Steinhausen, JT Fleming, FG Holz, N. Parekh: Nitrendipine and the pressure-dependent vasodilation of vessels in the hydronephrotic kidney . In: J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. tape 9 , Suppl 1, 1987, pp. S39-S43 .
  11. ↑ M. Steinhausen, H. Tillmanns, H. Thederan: Microcirculation of the epimyocardial layer of the heart. I. A method for in vivo observation of the microcirculation of superficial ventricular myocardium of the heart and capillary flow pattern under normal and hypoxic conditions . In: Pflugers Arch . tape 378 , no. 1 , 1978, p. 9-14 .
  12. ^ The Albert Schweitzer Medal. In: www.aerztekammer-bw.de. May 12, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Steinhausen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist, professor of physiology
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald