Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first, he was almost too successful. Everywhere he looked--from cartilage to fungi to the notorious sedative thalidomide--Folkman found one compound after another that exhibited anti-angiogenic properties. But none of them was as effective as he wanted it to be. Then he remembered something that surgeons had often observed: that taking out one big tumor from a patient seems to trigger the growth of lots of smaller ones. Could it be that tumors secrete a substance that inhibits the growth of rival tumors' blood vessels...
...them, Dr. Michael O'Reilly, agreed to take on the project. Together he and Folkman eventually determined that various segments of a naturally occurring protein called plasminogen seemed to do the trick. They called the collection of molecular fragments angiostatin and found that each version of the compound differed slightly in its ability to stop a tumor from growing...
...later, Carter confirmed that a bottle ofisopropyl chloroformate had exploded on its own.He said the compound had likely been opened atsome earlier date and then reacted with water inthe air to produce gases including carbon dioxide...
These gases then built up inside the compound'sglass container, Carter said...
...movie? If he actually trusted the populist filmmaker to intervene as Knight went postal on camera and started pumping round after round into his own foot, then Nike's founder is even more out of touch than legend has it. Who volunteers for an ambush interview and then, to compound his error, publicly condemns the outcome...