Jean Nageotte

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Jean Nageotte (February 8, 1866 - 1948) was a French anatomist who was born in Dijon. He earned his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1893, and afterwards was associated with the Hôpital Bicêtre and Salpêtrière. He succeeded Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835-1922) in what then became the chair of comparative histology at the Collège de France.

Nageotte was known for his work in microscopic anatomy of the nervous system, where he did extensive research concerning connective tissue, nerve fibers, nerve cells and the myelin sheath. He also studied tabes dorsalis, and with Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) the Babinski-Nageotte syndrome was described. This syndrome is a complex of symptoms associated with medullary lesions. He documented this disorder in a treatise called Hémiasynergie, latéropulsion et miosis bulbaire. Also with Babinski he co-wrote a book on cerebrospinal fluid.

Other eponyms associated with Jean Nageotte:

Nageotte cells: mononuclear cells found in the cerebrospinal fluid; 1 or 2 Nageotte cells per cubic milimeter are typically found in in healthy individuals, but larger numbers of these cells are an indication of disease.
Nageotte's radicular nerve: located in the nerve root at the connection of the spinal column.