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The Pavlov Physiological Society, which will celebrate its centenary in 2017, has long enjoyed recognition among the scientific community and has always worked to consolidate the wide circle of specialists who are either directly or indirectly related to the study of physiological mechanisms. The current President of the society Academician M.A. Ostrovsky discusses the history of the creation of the Physiological Society, its goals and objectives, and its achievements and role in the development of Russian physiological science. He particularly emphasizes the significance of modern integrative physiology, which marks a new stage in the development of this science, opening broad horizons in understanding the mechanisms of the living organism and the phenomenon of life as a whole.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Ostrovsky, 2017, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 158–165.
RAS Academician Mikhail Arkad’evich Ostrovsky is Head of the Department of Photochemistry and Photobiology of the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, RAS, Head of the Department of Molecular Physiology of the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University, and President of the Pavlov Physiological Society.
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Ostrovsky, M.A. It is time to think “physiologically”. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 87, 93–99 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331617010105
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