Nikolai Mikhaylovich Artemov (; 24 January 1908 – 2 December 2005) was a Soviet Russian physiologist,

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in Biological Sciences (1969), Honorary Professor at the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. He is known as the founder of scientific

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. In 1957, the

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sanctioned the use of

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in the treatment of certain ailments. It was the "Instruction for Bee Sting Venom Apitherapy" by N.M. Artemov (with Prof. G. P. Zaytsev from

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), who authored the document.

Career

He graduated from the Department of Physiology at the faculty of biology of the

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in 1931. From 1936 to 1941, he work at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1943 to 1974, Artemov headed the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Humans and Animals at the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. From 1969 to 1975, Artemov served as Vice-president of the Standing Commission on Apiculture Products

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. In 1971, Artemov headed the first organized symposium on apitherapy at the Congress of Apimondia. He was appointed Honorary

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Professor. Among his famous students were Zeveke A.V., Shamil Omarov, Vasily Krylov, Boris Orlov, David Gelashvili. Artemov is the author about 200 scientific articles and more than 2 monographs. In 1941, his monograph "Bee venom, its physiological properties and therapeutic use" was published by the

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.Bee venom, its physiological properties and therapeutic use
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) He is the author, with Dmitry Sukharev, of the biography of

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Works

* N. M. Artemov, V. P. Lapin
Bee Venom
(in Russian) // Big Medical Encyclopedia
Instruction for Bee Sting Venom Apitherapy
(in Russian). Approved by the Academic Medical Council of the

(March 10, 1959) * NM Artemov, BN Orlov
New data on the scientific argumentation of the physiology of application of bee venom as a medicine
// Apiacta 3, 1968

References

External links

In memory of Nikolai Mikhailovich Artemov
/ Krylov V.N., Zeveke A.V., Irzhak L.I. (in Russian) // Российский физиологический журнал им. И. М. Сеченова. - 2006. - Т. 92, N 6. - С. 771. * * https://web.archive.org/web/20170806102133/http://www.apimondia.com/es/federacion/historia {{DEFAULTSORT:Artemov, Nikolay 1908 births 2005 deaths Soviet scientists Soviet physiologists Apitherapists Moscow State University alumni Soviet academics