Recent biochemical and medical aspects

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. PHYSICOCHEMICAL ASPECTS -- PARACRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE OF NATIVE HUMAN FIBRINOGEN / Gollwitzer, Rotraut / Bode, Wolfram / Schramm, Hans-Josef / Typke, Dieter / Guckenberger, Reinhard -- DETERMINATION OF FIBRIN STRUCTURES BY LIGHT SCATTERING / Burchard, Walther / Müller, Michael -- PARTICULARITIES OF FIBRINOGEN, ROD-LIKE AND BRANCHED FIBRINS / Müller, Michael / Burchard, Walther -- TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON FIBRIN(OGEN)-FIBRIN SOLUTIONS (Preliminary results) / Wiltzius, Pierre / Känzig, Werner -- HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASMIN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS PROM HUMAN FIBRINOGEN / Drift, Alfons C. M. van der / Poppema, Aldi -- THE KINETICS OF FIBRIN FORMATION / Zimmermann, R. Eberhard -- II. BIOCHEMICAL ASPECTS -- STRUCTURE - FUNCTION - EVOLUTION RELATIONSHIP IN FIBRINOGEN / Henschen, Agnes / Lottspeich, Friedrich / Kehl, Maria / Southan, Chris / Lucas, John -- ARTIFACTUAL HETEROGENEITY OF HUMAN FIBRINOGEN POLYPEPTIDE CHAINS CAUSED BY CARBOXYMETHYLATION / Kuyas, Cemal / Haeberli, André / Straub, P. Werner -- INFLUENCE OF SIALIC ACID ON THE ADULT AND FETAL FIBRINOGEN-FIBRIN TRANSITION / Witt, Irene / Seydewitz, Hans H. / Dahlacker, Volker -- FIBRIN FORMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF TRYPSIN / Hessel, Birgit / Blombäck, Birger / Söderman, Sonja -- CHARACTERISATION OF RAT FIBRINOGEN / Kehl, Maria / Henschen, Agnes -- CHARACTERISATION OF PIG FIBRINOGEN / Lucas, John / Henschen, Agnes -- III. ABNORMAL FIBRINOGENS -- ON DYSFIBRINOGENEMIA / Marx, Rudolf / Schramm, Wolfgang -- DETECTION OF FIBRINOGEN ABNORMALITY IN DYSFIBRINOGENEMIA SPECIAL REPORT ON FIBRINOGEN METZ CHARACTERIZED BY AN AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION LOCATED AT THE PEPTIDE BOND CLEAVED BY THROMBIN. / Soria, Jeannette / Soria, Claudine / Samama, Meyer / Henschen, Agnes / Southan, Chris -- BINDING OF CITRATE TO NORMAL FIBRINOGEN AND TO METZ FIBRINOGEN / Ladure, P. / Ricordel, Y. / Soria, J. / Soria, C. / Samama, M. -- THE SEARCH FOR MOLECULAR DEFECTS IN ABNORMAL FIBRINOGENS / Southan, Chris / Henschen, Agnes / Lottspeich, Friedrich -- FIBRINOGEN BERN I: A HEREDITARY FIBRINOGEN VARIANT WITH DEFECTIVE CONFORMATIONAL STABILIZATION BY CALCIUM IONS / Rupp, Christoph / Kuyas, Cemal / Haberli, André / Furlan, Miha / Perret, Beat A. / Beck, Eugene A. -- CARBOHYDRATE IN ABNORMAL FIBRINOGENS / Lane, David A. / Alien, Antony K. / Markwick, John / Thompson, Elisabeth / Ilackie, Ian -- OBSERVATION ON A NEW VARIANT OF HEREDITARY DYSFIBRINOGENEMIA (HDMBURG I) WITH DELAYED FIBRIN POLYMERIZATION AND WITHOUT CLINICAL ABNORMALITY / Miyashita, Chieko / Nienhaus, Karl-Heinz / Wenzel, Ernst / Köhler, Michael / Hellstern, Peter -- IV. FIBRINOPEPTIDE DETERMINATION -- FPA-RELEASE IN NORMAL AND ABNORMAL FIBRINOGEN / Schramm, Wolfgang / Marx, Rudolf -- SIMULTANEOUS CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RADIOIMMUNOASSAYS FOR FIBRINOPEPTIDES AND g-THROMBOGLOBULIN / Lane, David A. / Ireland, Helen / Wolff, Sylvia -- ANALYSIS OF HUMAN FIBRINOPEPTIDES BY HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY : QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION AND KINETICS OF RELEASE / Kehl, Maria / Lottspeich, Friedrich / Henschen, Agnes -- V. FIBRINOGEN - FIBRIN COMPLEXES -- SOLUBLE FIBRINOGEN-FIBRIN COMPLEXES IN PLASMA AT 37°C / Kierulf, Peter / Brosstad, Frank -- SOLUBLE DES-AA FIBRIN CLEARANCE IN HEALTHY HUMAN SUBJECTS / Brosstad, Frank / Hamborg, Tor / Holm, Bjørn / Godal, Hans C. / Kierulf, Peter -- COMPLEX FORMATION OF SOLUBLE FIBRIN POLYMERS WITH AGAROSECOUPLED FIBRINOGEN AND FIBRIN WITH REGARD TO THEIR MOLECULAR WEIGHT / von Hugo, René / Hafter, Reimar / Graeff, Herner -- TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT REVERSIBLE ASSOCIATION AND DISSOCIATION OF SOLUBLE FIBRIN IN PLASMA / Müller-Berghaus, Gert / Mahn, Ingo / Krell, Wolfgang / Bernhard, Johannes-Christoph -- NO COMPLEX FORMATION OF DES-AB FIBRIN WITH FIBRINOGEN INVESTIGATED BY THE HUMMEL AND DREYER PROCEDURE / Mahn, Ingo / Krell, Wolfgang / Müller-Berghaus, Gert -- VI. FIBRIN(OGEN) DEGRADATION AND CROSSLINKED FIBRIN DERIVATIVES -- ON THE STRUCTURE OF D-FRAGMENTS OF HUMAN FIBRINOGEN AND FIBRIN / Nieuwenhuizen, Willem / Vermond, Anton / Haverkate, Frits -- ROLE OF THE C-TERMINUS OF THE FIBRINOGEN y-CHAIN IN FIBRINOGEN Ca2+ BINDING AND IN FIBRIN POLYMERIZATION / Haverkate, Frits / Nieuwenhuizen, Willem -- FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION BY GRANULOCYTE ELASTÄSE AND CATHEPSIN G - GENERATION OF FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS WITH ANTICOAGULANT PROPERTIES / Gramse, Margarethe / Bingenheimer, Christine -- A SIMPLE METHOD FOR QUANTIFICATION OF FIBRINOGEN-CHAINS AND EARLY SPLIT-PRODUCTS IN SDS-DISC-ELECTROPHORESIS / Wuppermann, Thomas / Folke Rath, Norbert / Zielonka, Hans Jürgen / Seppo Kestilä, Matti -- HOMOLOGUES OF FIBRIN X OLIGOMERS / Hafter, Reimar / Graeff, Henner -- FIBRIN FRAGMENTATION BY PLASMIN: MOLECULAR CONSIDERATIONS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO DIC AND THROMBOSIS / Gaffney, Patrick J. -- FIBRINOGEN IN LIVER CIRRHOSIS. FIBRIN MONOMER COMPLEXES AND DYSFIBRINOGENAEMIA WITH HIGH SIALIC ACID CONTENT / Coccheri, Sergio / Palareti, Gualtiero / Poggi, Mario -- INFLUENCE OF VARIOUS THROMBIN FORMATION RATES ON THE FIBRIN STABILIZATION PROCESS / Barthels, Monika -- SOME OBSERVATION ON CONCENTRATION AND COAGULABILITY OF FIBRINOGEN IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER, WITH AND WITH3UT METASTASIS / Miyashita, Chieko / Dumitrescu, Elena / Wenzel, Ernst / Meiser, Richard Johannes -- VII. BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT PEPTIDES AND INTERACTION WITH OTHER PROTEINS -- EFFECTS OF PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM FIBRINOGEN PROTEOLYSIS ON IMMUNEREACTIONS AND TUMOR GROWTH / Kopec, Maria / Roszkowski, Waldemar / Gerdin, Bengt / Saldeen, Tom -- PLASMIN AND ELASTASE INDUCED FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS AND THEIR ACTION ON VASCULAR PERMEABILITY: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY / Schmeller, Marie-Luise / Hafter, Reimar / Stemberger, Axel / Graeff, Henner / Blümel, Günther -- THE EFFECT OF REPEATED INJECTIONS OF FIBRINOPEPTIDES A AND B ON EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS IN RATS AND GUINEA PIGS / Ruhenstroth-Bauer, Gerhard / Scherer, Rainer / Abd-El-Fattah, M. / Simon, Jiri -- INTERACTION OF FIBRINOGEN WITH ITS PLATELET RECEPTOR REQUIRES THE NATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE MOLECULE AND DIVALENT IONS / Marguerie, Gerard / Plow, Edward F. -- STUDIES ON THE BINDING OF TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR TO FIBRINOGEN AND FIBRIN / Kruithof, Egbert K.O. / Bachmann, Fedor -- FIBRIN BINDING AND TRANSAMIDATION REACTIVE DOMAINS OF FIBRONECTIN / Hörmann, Helmut / Seidl, Martin / Richter, Hartmut -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- Backmatter