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...breathing animals, including humans, have cytochrome systems (a gourd of three iron-containing enzymes related to hemoglobin) in their body cells. These systems provide the basic means by which all animals utilize oxygen in the tissue...

Author: By E. J. Kronfeld, | Title: Williams Reveals Insect Hormone Controls Growth | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

...grown any fainter during their years of meat famine and general austerity, but it seems to be a fact that their blood is running thinner. Last week an officer of the Greater London Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service announced that tests on blood donors in 1950 had revealed a hemoglobin (oxygen-carrying red pigment) level several points below the average in 1939. As a result, the Red Cross lowered its minimum hemoglobin standard for new donors from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lower Standard | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...calls for a certain amount of pricking up of ears. With the publication of The Whole Armor, ears can be at ease. Like the 60-odd Baldwin novels that have preceded it, this earnest story of a young Manhattan minister's search for maturity has a pretty thin hemoglobin content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Transfusion | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Blood is full of a number of things. There are the red cells, which contain oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and are used in transfusions for anemia.There are white cells, which rush to defend the system against bacterial invasion. There are the little-understood platelets, which help in clotting. Besides these solids, there is the amber fluid (plasma), which contains a score or more different components, some already being used in medicine, others still in the research stage. To separate these various fractions, preserve them and make them available for medical use is a vastly complex process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vital Fractions | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart for an athlete," says Monge. The Andean practically never suffers from high blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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