Tag: Blood
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Karl Landsteiner – discovered poliovirus, the rhesus factor, described as the father of transfusion medicine
Karl Landsteiner ForMemRS (14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-born American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1937 identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient’s…
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Disorders of bleeding and clotting
Clotting By cause Clotting factors Antithrombin III deficiency Protein C deficiency Activated protein C resistance Protein S deficiency Factor V Leiden Prothrombin G20210A Platelets Sticky platelet syndrome Thrombocytosis Essential thrombocythemia DIC Purpura fulminans Antiphospholipid syndrome Clots Thrombophilia Thrombus Thrombosis Virchow’s triad Trousseau sign of malignancy By site Deep vein thrombosis Bancroft’s sign Homans sign Lisker’s sign Louvel’s sign Lowenberg’s…
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Antithrombotics (thrombolytics, anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs) (B01)
Antiplatelet drugs Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors Abciximab Eptifibatide Orbofiban Roxifiban Sibrafiban§Tirofiban ADP receptor/P2Y12 inhibitors Thienopyridines Clopidogrel Prasugrel Ticlopidine Nucleotide/nucleoside analogs Cangrelor Elinogrel Ticagrelor Prostaglandin analogue (PGI2) Beraprost Iloprost Prostacyclin Treprostinil COX inhibitors Acetylsalicylic acid/Aspirin# Aloxiprin Carbasalate calcium Indobufen Triflusal Thromboxane inhibitors Thromboxane synthase inhibitors Dipyridamole (+ aspirin) Picotamide Terbogrel Receptor antagonists Terbogrel Terutroban§ Phosphodiesterase inhibitors Cilostazol Dipyridamole Triflusal Other Cloricromen Ditazole Vorapaxar #WHO-EM‡Withdrawn from marketClinical…
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Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) aka PMCH
Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH), also known as pro-melanin stimulating hormone (PMCH), is a cyclic 19-amino acid orexigenic hypothalamicpeptide originally isolated from the pituitary gland of teleost fish, where it controls skin pigmentation. Barson JR, Morganstern I, Leibowitz SF (2013). “Complementary roles of orexin and melanin-concentrating hormone in feeding behavior”. International Journal of Endocrinology. 2013: 983964. doi:10.1155/2013/983964. PMC 3727095. PMID 23935621. In mammals it is involved in the regulation of feeding behavior, mood,…
