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The thromboplastic action of cephalin.

Amer. J. Physiol., 41, 250-57. 1916.

McLean extracted from dog liver a substance which retarded blood coagulation in vitro and which, after further work by Howell and Holt (No.905), was named heparin.

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Entry Number#904
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