Blood, 1959, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 662-667.
© 1959 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Evaluation of Plasma Erythropoietic-Stimulating Factors
in Anemic Uremic Patients
NEIL I. GALLAGHER 1,
JOHN M. MCCARTHY 1,
KATHLEEN T. HART 1, and
ROBERT D. LANGE 1
1 St. Louis Veterans Administration Hospital and Departments of Medicine,
Schools of Medicine, Washington and St. Louis Universities, St. Louis, Mo.
1. Plasma samples from certain chronically anemic humans have a humoral
erythropoietic-stimulating factor.
2. Sixteen anemic uremic patients were studied to evaluate plasma levels
of erythropoietic-stimulating factor. Fifteen of these patients showed no active erythropoietic-stimulating factors.
Submitted on July 28, 1958
Accepted on October 12, 1958