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n. - A simple large organic compound found in fish sperm.

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  • Langberg also said two patients were given protamine sulfate, a drug that reverses the effects of heparin.
  • One test was normal, but the other two were given another drug, protamine sulfate, that reverses the effects of heparin.
  • After two years in their laboratory, during which time I studied the interaction of protamine with rabbit muscle phosphorylase, I became so enamored with biochemistry that
  • Earlier it was generally accepted that guanine and other similar substances originated from the protein molecule and Miescher thought that these bodies perhaps arose from...
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