glutamate excitotoxicity and mitochondrial dysfunction in neurons. He was a member of a number of editorial boards including that of the journal Membrane and Cell Biology. Personal life He was married in 1949 to Faina Sheykhon, physiologist, and they had one child Alla born in 1954. In 1985 Boris Khodorov was awarded the USSR State Prize. Publications First published in Russian as «Физиология человека» References External links Ходоров, Борис Израилевич — an article in the Great Encyclopedia of Biographies Boris Khodorov’s profile at the VIP-persons website 1922 births 2014 deaths People from Kerch Russian Jews Soviet Jews Russian physiologists Russian neuroscientists Jewish scientists Soviet physiologists 20th-century Russian scientists 21st-century Russian scientists Soviet military personnel of World War II Recipients of the USSR State Prize Soviet military doctors