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Meeting Notes
Author(s) -
Jerry Sheehan,
Joann Stryker,
Adam Edelman,
Justin van Almelo,
Alisha Schroeder,
Kellie Petersen
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1537-2995.1962.tb00224.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science , world wide web
The first sessions were devoted to assay metho d s , standardization, purification and chemical characterization of erythropoietin. Establishment of a standard, admittedly crude at present, was urged. Standard “A” is available on request to the Study Section and it is hoped that researchers in this field will use their own materials for preparing secondary standards. The most highly purified material described represents 150,000 times concentration of the activity of the original sheep plasma but the goal of a pure substance is not yet at hand. Erythropoietin may be an alphal or alpha, glycoprotein which contains approximately 29 per cent carbohydrate, 17 per cent hexosamine, 13 per cent sialic acid. Molecular weight predictions seem premature.