Word: albumin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months at 86°-90° F. Many physicians also believe that plasma substitutes are in short supply. Neither assumption is true, say the American Red Cross and the Greater New York Community Blood Council. Salt solutions and synthetics such as dextran are plentifully available. So is serum albumin; although extracted from plasma, this can be filtered and heated sufficiently to make it noninfectious...
...plasma comes from the scores of blood banks that make a profit out of plasma. They can extract it economically from outdated whole blood, which cannot be used after storage for 21 days, keep it indefinitely and ship it easily. Most of them lack facilities for extracting serum albumin, and would have to buy that. But if they do not ship across state lines, federal regulations cannot touch them. Meanwhile, the number of federally reported cases of serum hepatitis-a miserably lingering and debilitating liver disease, sometimes fatal-is running at double the 1967 rate, with 2,050 cases tallied...
...dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then the pen came to the last column, cryptically marked S.G.O.T. (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase-an index of liver function). As the red line jumped to the top of the chart, above the 250 mark, the doctor exclaimed, "My God!" It was his first intimation that...
...only water and waste chemicals get through; they must hold all red cells, white cells and platelets in the channels that lead back to the bloodstream. At the same time, with micrometer precision, they must also hold back big molecules, such as those of albumin, but must let pass the smaller molecules of the body's waste products. If blood appears in the urine, it is a sign that the kidneys are diseased or injured. If the urine is too weak or watery, it means that the kidneys are not filtering out enough wastes...
...Hour Flush. Working with the radiopharmaceutical division of E. R. Squibb & Sons, Dr. Taplin found what he wanted: human albumin, but in a special form made up of large molecules too big to pass through the lungs' blood filters, and laced with radioactive iodine. Dr. Taplin proved in dogs that these macro-molecules would jam up in the clot-closed arteries, stay there long enough to take their own picture on an X-ray plate, then break up into the normal, small-molecule form of albumin and pass into the bloodstream...