Vladimir Dilman

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Vladimir Mikhailovich Dilman (19 July 1925 – 21 May 1994) was a Soviet scientist and physician. He served on the staff of the N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology for many years. He contributed to the development of oncology, endocrinology and gerontology.{{cite journal|title=[The scientific career of V. M. Dil'man] | pmid=11383447 | volume=47 | issue=2 | journal=Vopr Onkol| pages=135–8 | last1 = Napalkov | first1 = NP| year=2001 }}{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281264559|title=Vladimir Dilman–theorist and practitioner in the field of endocrinology (90th birth anniversary)|first=Lev|last=Berstein|date=12 May 2015|journal=Diabetes Mellitus|volume=18|issue=2|pages=96–98|via=ResearchGate|doi=10.14341/DM2015296-98|doi-access=free}}

In 1954 Vladimir Dilman proposed hypothesis of aging that at first become known only in the USSR, as the elevation hypothesis. In 1968 it took the form and became known as the neuroendocrine theory of aging.{{cite journal|author=Ward Dean |url=https://warddeanmd.com/articles/neuroendocrine-theory-of-aging-chapter-1/ |title=Neuroendocrine Theory of Aging |website=warddeanmd.com |date=22 March 2012 |access-date=2021-05-05}}{{cite journal|last1=Dilman |first1=Vladimir M. |author-link1=Vladimir Dilman |date=1971-06-12 |title=Age-associated elevation of hypothalamic, threshold to feedback control, and its role in development, ageine, and disease |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673671917211 |journal=The Lancet |volume=1 |issue=7711 |pages=1211–9 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(71)91721-1 |pmc= |pmid=4103080|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal|last1=Dilman |first1=V.M. |author-link1=Vladimir Dilman |last2=Revskoy |first2=S.Y. |last3=Golubev |first3=A.G. |date=1986 |title=Neuroendocrine-Ontogenetic Mechanism of Aging: Toward An Integrated Theory of Aging |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0074774208601075 |journal=International Review of Neurobiology |volume=28 |issue= |pages=89–156 |doi=10.1016/S0074-7742(08)60107-5 |pmc= |pmid= 3542876|isbn=9780123668288 |url-access=subscription }}