Word: globulins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest and most hopeful weapons in the fight against polio is a blood fraction called gamma globulin. Doctors have known for several years that it is a rich storehouse of disease-fighting antibodies. They also know that injections of it will reduce the effects of measles in children. Now there is evidence that gamma globulin may be able to attack and destroy polio before it gets to the nervous system and wreaks its paralyzing effects...
This work resulted in the production of serium albumin, gamma globulin, fibrin products for brain surgery, and other parts of the coagulation mechanism for chemical and clinical study...
...passive" kind-e.g., the immunities that every baby receives from its mother, and that last for only the first few months of life. Doctors now know that this kind of immunity can often be given later in life by injections of the blood fraction known as gamma globulin, taken from persons who have had some of the virus diseases. Like the newborn's immunity, this soon wears off. But if somebody enjoying this temporary immunity is exposed to the virus, Stokes reasons, his body goes to work and develops the second, or "active," kind of immunity, which...
...Stokes is planning experiments to see whether a throat spray containing a virus of a disease such as mumps, given soon after injections of gamma globulin, can produce active immunity against the disease...
...Utah County, Utah, where the polio rate has been high this summer, one group of youngsters is now getting injections of a blood particle known as gamma globulin; a second group, dummy shots. Purpose: to see whether gamma globulin, which is especially rich in natural antibodies, will do for humans what it seems to do for laboratory animals-prevent virulent polio strains from leading to paralysis...