Robert Ladislas, Labat-Robert Jacqueline, Michel Robert Alexandre
Laboratoire de Recherche Ophtalmologique, Université Paris 5, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France.
Biol Aujourdhui. 2012;206(2):69-72. doi: 10.1051/jbio/2012010. Epub 2012 Jul 4.
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.
该协会成立于1962年，当时在巴黎圣父路生物医学研究所组织的一次国际会议上成立，该研究所的生物化学系当时由马克斯·F·杰勒教授领导，并于1963年发表在《医学年度生物化学报告》上。起初它是一个“俱乐部”，参与者人数有限，后来迅速发展成为一个协会，最近更名为“法国细胞外基质生物学协会”，约有200名成员从事各种主题的研究。在2012年1月18日于居里研究所举行的生物学协会会议上，庆祝协会周年时，这些团队中只有六个能够进行口头报告。还有一些团队能够为《今日生物学》的这一特刊提交书面稿件。在这篇简短的引言中，我们将回顾结缔组织科学发展的一些重要阶段。除了结缔组织基质的大分子成分等经典主题外，这一学科还逐渐纳入了介导细胞与基质相互作用的受体、整合素和其他分子。
