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BELENKY Max Lvovich (1911 - 1965)
BELENKY Max Lvovich (1911 - 1965, Riga), pharmacologist. Corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences USSR (1960). He graduated from the 2nd Leningrad Medical Institute (1933) and then worked in the Department of Pharmacology there. Between 1941-45 he served as an army toxicologist. From 1952 he was head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Riga Medical Institute.
Belenky's scientific research primarily focused on the pharmacology of carotid receptors, as well as cholinergic and adrenergic processes. He put forward and substantiated a theory about adverse energy balance as a direct course of the occurence возбудительного процесса in chemoreceptors of the carotid body and other receptor structures. Together with his colleagues выявил и изучил адренергические свойства апоморфина, холинергический компонент в действии фенамина. Чл. правления Всес. фармакологического об-ва. Засл. деятель науки ЛатвССР (1961).
Соч.: Элементы количеств, оценки фармакологического эффекта, Рига, 1959, Л., 1963; Фармакология хемиорецепторов каротидного клубочка, Л., 1962 (совм. с С.В.Аничковым).