Boris Innokentyevich Lavrentiev (Russian: Борис Иннокентьевич Лаврентьев; 12 August, 1892 – 9 February, 1944) was a Russian and Soviet histologist who served as a professor at the Zoological Institute of Moscow and at the First Moscow State Medical University.
His major work was on the peripheral nervous system, regeneration and innervation of internal organs.
She was fluent in French and German, and had a special music and artist education (played the piano, sang and drew).
[1] Lavrentiev specialized in neurohistology and examined growth and repair in nerves using silver impregnation techniques.
He supported the idea of trophic effects and suggested that synapses helped in independence of the neurons.