Title of a 1950 experiment in hematology, where the academic staff of Barnes Hospital gave themselves transfusions of the plasma from a patient with ITP to observe the effect on platelet counts in normal subjects. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hematology ( American English) or haematology ( British English) is the branch of biology (physiology Pathology, Clinical laboratory For the hospital in St Louis Missouri, see Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Blood plasma is the Liquid component of Blood, in which the Blood cells are suspended The staff observed reduced platelet counts that recovered after a period of several days. This experiment established the autoimmune etiology of ITP. In scientific inquiry an experiment ( Latin: Ex- periri, "to try out" is a method of investigating particular types of research questions or Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, which results in an immune response against its own cells and tissues Etiology (alternatively aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. [1] [2]
- ^ Schwartz RS (2007). "Immune thrombocytopenic purpura--from agony to agonist". N. Engl. J. Med. 357 (22): 2299–301. doi:. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. PMID 18046034.
- ^ HARRINGTON WJ, MINNICH V, HOLLINGSWORTH JW, MOORE CV (1951). "Demonstration of a thrombocytopenic factor in the blood of patients with thrombocytopenic purpura". J. Lab. Clin. Med. 38 (1): 1–10. PMID 14850832.
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