THE CONVERSION OF FIBRINOGEN TO FIBRIN: EVENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS FROM 1942 TO 1982 *
THE CONVERSION OF FIBRINOGEN TO FIBRIN: EVENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS FROM 1942 TO 1982 *
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纤维蛋白原向纤维蛋白的转化:1942 年至 1982 年的事件和回忆*
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发表时间:
1983
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
J. Ferry
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作者:
J. Ferry
This account begins in 1942 because that is when fibrinogen first became available in ample quantities from large-scale plasma fractionation. It would be too much to say that this revolutionized the course of research on blood coagulation, since much of the best work has always been done by people who isolated and purified their own fibrinogen directly from whole blood, collected under their own controlled conditions. However, research was certainly stimulated by the ease of obtaining either human or bovine Fraction I from commercial or institutional sources. Many investigators used Fraction I from these sources either directly or as starting material for further purification, as one can see by examining the literature from that time forward. It was also in 1942 that I was called back part time from another war assignment to the Harvard Medical School to examine possible practical applications of human Fraction I. This material was accumulating as a by-product of the plasma fractionation procedure developed by Edwin J. Cohn and his associates. The story of that wartime enterprise is well known. Plasma from the Red Cross was fractionated by use of ethanol at low temperatures, with precise specification of pH, ionic strength, and other conditions. The methods were worked out first at the Harvard Pilot Plant, with progressive modification and improvement, and were eventually employed at seven industrial firms to produce protein fractions on a commercial scale for use by the armed forces. The primary product was plasma albumin for treatment of shock. It was packaged as a sterile and stable 25% solution that could be injected immediately without the delay involved in reconstitution of dried plasma. Byproducts included Fraction I, which contained most of the fibrinogen; immunoglobulins; and others, including thrombin, in smaller amounts. Investigations of the components involved in blood clotting, including more highly purified fibrinogen obtained by subfractionation of Fraction I, antihemophilic factor, cold-insoluble globulin, and thrombin, were coordinated by John T. Edsall. Peter R. Morrison and I were supplied with Fraction I, of which about 60% of the protein was clottable, in ample amounts for experiments to explore practical applications of this material. The fist proposal was to use fibrin clots in the surface therapy of burns. We found that the adherence of a clot to a surface and its friability, toughness, and syneresis could be regulated by the conditions of its formation such as pH, ionic strength, and the presence of additives such as glycerol. Although the intended clinical use did not develop very far, we explored the effects of these variables on the physical properties of clots in detail, using mostly refractionated material with a higher