title: [Fiftieth anniversary of the French Society for Connective Tissue Research].
abstract: The Society was founded in 1962, at an international meeting organized at the Biomedical           Institute rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris in the Department of Biochemistry headed at that           time by Pr. Max F. Jayle, and published in the "Exposés Annuels de Biochimie Médicale" in           1963. At its beginnings a "Club", with a limited number of participants, it expanded           rapidly into a Society, renamed recently "French Society of the Biology of Extracellular           Matrix", with approximately 200 members working on a variety of subjects. Only six of           these teams could present an oral report at the meeting of the Biological Society on           January 18, 2012, celebrating this anniversary at the Curie Institute. A few more could           send written contributions for this special issue of "Biologie Aujourd'hui". In this short           introduction we shall recall some important stages of the developing connective tissue           science. Besides such classical subjects, as the macromolecular components of connective           tissue matrix, this discipline incorporated progressively receptors, integrins and other           molecules, that mediate cell-matrix interactions.
authors: Laboratoire de Recherche Ophtalmologique, Université Paris 5, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France. lrobert5@wanadoo.fr
authors: Ladislas
authors: L
authors: Robert
authors: Jacqueline
authors: J
authors: Labat-Robert
authors: Alexandre
authors: A
authors: Michel Robert
mesh_terms: D001671:Biochemistry / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D003585:Cell Biology / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000502:physiology; D005602:France; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends