Enrico Sertoli (
June 6 1842 -
January 28,
1910) was an Italian
physiologist and
histologist who was a native of
Sondrio. He studied medicine at the
University of Pavia, where one of his instructors was physiologist
Eusebio Oehl (1827-1903). He continued his studies of
physiology in
Vienna under
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819-1892), and in
Tübingen with
Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825-1895). From 1870 until 1907, Sertoli was a professor of
anatomy and physiology at the Royal School of Veterinary Medicine in
Milan, and after 1907 a professor of physiology. In Milan he founded the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology.
Sertoli is remembered for his 1865 discovery of the eponymous Sertoli cell. These cells line the tubuli seminiferi contorti of the testis, and provide nourishment and support for developing sperm.
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.