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The story of interferon : the ups and downs in the life of a scientist

Title
The story of interferon : the ups and downs in the life of a scientist / K. Cantell.
Author
Cantell, K. (Kari)
Publication
Singapore ; New York : World Scientific, 1998.

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Description
x, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits; 22 cm
Summary
The Finnish doctor Kari Cantell is one of the scientists to whom the development of the drugs called interferons can be attributed. Interferons have achieved an important place in the treatment of cancer, viral infections and multiple sclerosis. In the 1960s Cantell and his coworkers developed a method for the preparation of interferon in white blood cells. During those years, most of the global production of interferon took place in Finland and the vast majority of the clinical studies in the world employed Finnish interferon. The memoirs of Cantell record interferon's long road from the labor.
Subject
  • Cantell, K
  • Cantell, Kari, 1932-
  • Antiviral agents > Research > History
  • Scientists > Biography
  • Virology > Research > History
  • Interferon > Research > History
  • Virus diseases > Immunological aspects
  • Immunologists > Finland > Biography
  • Science > Biography
  • Interferons > history
  • 44.43 medical microbiology
  • Immunologie
  • Recherche scientifique
  • Histoire
  • Virology > Research
  • Scientists
  • Immunologists
  • Interferon > Research
  • Interferonen
  • Finland
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
  • History.
  • Memoirs (form)
ISBN
  • 9810231482
  • 9789810231484
LCCN
98198486
OCLC
  • ocm39843134
  • 39843134
  • SCSB-9595071
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library