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Fibrinogen Has a Rapid Turnover in the Healthy Newborn Lamb

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The half-lives for coagulation factors in the healthy newborn infant are not known and may be different than for the adult. We measured the half-life for fetal sheep fibrinogen and compared it to the half-life of adult sheep fibrinogen. Fibrinogen was purified from adult and fetal sheep plasma and radiolabeled with either 125I or 131I. The half-lives for these fibrinogens were determined in the adult sheep and newborn lamb. In …

Authors

Andrew M; Mitchell L; Berry LR; Schmidt B; Hatton MWC

Journal

Pediatric Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 249–252

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

March 1988

DOI

10.1203/00006450-198803000-00002

ISSN

0031-3998