Studies on Alcohol Gelation of Serum

Authors

T. U. Marron, Iowa Lutheran HospitalFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Lewin (1) described a gelation reaction which takes place in human blood serum when it is mixed with an equal quantity of 80 per cent ethyl alcohol in vitro. Varying degrees of rigidity of the mixture were noticed with sera from different persons. In this study an attempt was made to discover whether there was any correlation between the degree of gelation and the type of disease had by hospitalized patients. In later studies search was also made for correlation of this reaction with composition and physical properties of the sera.

Publication Date

1940

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

47

Issue

1

First Page

257

Last Page

260

Copyright

©1940 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Marron, T. U. (1940) "Studies on Alcohol Gelation of Serum," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 47(1), 257-260.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol47/iss1/48