Word: thrombin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulled early last month, intensive bleeding (20 to 25 pints a day) set in. At Duke University Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department in Lansing, Mich. failed to halt the drain. Moreover, antibodies built up from previous transfusions neutralized the clotting qualities of the newly transfused blood. Last week, after 442 hours of bleeding, Willie Cooke died, having taken a record...
...brilliant theoretical flashes, Cohn identified more and more of the components of blood, and developed improved methods for extracting many of them. There was fibrinogen, raw material from which fibrin film and fibrin foam are made, to close wounds and cover the brain in daring, delicate surgery. There was thrombin, which combines with fibrinogen but is used separately in some cases. There was a special kind of globulin for hemophiliacs. There were globulins which made possible the immediate typing of any individual's blood...
...fluid part of the blood goes through more centrifuges and chilling processes. Out come a serum globulin (used to prevent or control measles), serum albumin (for treatment of shock), fibrinogen, thrombin and prothrombin - and more components of blood for which medical science has not yet found uses...