Word: lipids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gofman is not impressed. "I still think the lipid [fat] process comes first," he says. "If at any. given time you look at an artery that has been damaged by arteriosclerosis and find no signs of lipid substance, the tendency is to conclude that no lipid has existed. But there is strong evidence for believing that the lipid may have come first, starting the process, and then disappeared...
...this idea it is but a step to a bigger theory of health & sickness which Dr. Kahn (now at Ann Arbor on the faculty of the University of Michigan) has evolved. Some of the body's cells are constantly being destroyed, and in the process part of their lipid (fat-like) content passes into the blood. The system then automatically develops antibodies which react mysteriously with the dead-cell lipids. In the test tube, these antibodies react, in what Kahn holds to be a definite and ascertainable pattern, with the fatty stuff from beef heart...
...many of the co-workers who have been associated with Dr. Cohn in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Medical School in developing methods for the separation of the parts of the blood so as to make available as many as possible of its diverse collular, protein and lipid components, concentrated as specific therapeutic agents and of value in different conditions related to their natural functions...