[Immunomorphology--yesterday, today and tomorrow].

The paper discusses what immunomorphology is, which place it occupies in immunology today after methods of molecular biology, gene engineering, biotechnology have been intensively used in research, what basic methods and approaches are applied to immunological studies. Data available in the literature on the development, establishment, and prospects of immunomorphology and some morphofunctional evidences obtained by the Laboratory of Immunomorphology, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Morphology. Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, from the physiological and morphocytochemical studies of the lymphoid system in health and in disease with circadian variations in mind.