DENIS, Prosper Sylvain (1799 – 1863)
1799 – 1863
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1830
#13909
Recherches expérimentales sur le sang human considérè à l'état sain.
Denis discovered the presence of cholesterol (“cholestérine”) in the blood. This he announced on p. 110 of his Recherches expérimentales.
1859
#12874
Mémoire sur le sang quand il est fluide, pendant qu’il se coagule et lorsqu’il est coagulé.
The first attempt to isolate and describe fibrinogen, the blood protein essential for clotting. “Prosper-Sylvain Denis, in his Mémoire sur le sang (1859), was the first to recognize that plasma contained a clottable s…