Isolation of Human Fibrinogen of High Purity and in High Yield Using Polyethylene Glycol 1000

Summary

Fibrinogen was isolated from human plasma using a polyethylene glycol 1000 fractionation procedure that eliminates problems of denaturation, degradation and contamination encountered with other procedures (1). The technique is simple, rapid, gives a high yield and gram amounts of fibrinogen can be readily obtained.

Keywords

Human fibrinogen - Isolation - Polyethylene glycol

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