Word: globulins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antidote, known as gamma globulin, has proved effective in a majority of cases tried. Much of the success of the new treatment is credited to Dr. Cohn...
...Army & Navy can now prevent measles epidemics with a blood substance called gamma globulin. Last week this news spotlighted Harvard Medical School's unique Department of Physical Chemistry, where gamma-globulin extraction was perfected...
...Gamma globulin is a blood protein. The solution the Army & Navy use is made from donations to the Red Cross blood bank. In tests it has prevented attacks of measles entirely or made them mild. One obvious use for gamma globulin: to prevent measles in children under two, for whom the disease is very dangerous...
...Caltech biochemists believe that their discovery is further proof that immunization, whose physiological mechanics has long been a major mystery, is a molecular phenomenon. In the blood stream of animals are large protein molecules called serum globulin. If a bacterium, virus, poison molecule or other "antigen" is near the point where these molecules are formed, the adaptable globulin molecules change their shape and assume structures complementary to those of the invading antigens, so that they can combine with them and neutralize them. After the infection or poisoning has been overcome, these changed globulin molecules remain in the blood as antibodies...