Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA")
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Title
Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA")
Subject
Pulmonary Surfactants
Avery, Mary Ellen, 1927-
Description
Vials of Surfactant TA (Tokyo Akita), a modified sheep lung surfactant, brought back from Tetsuro Fujiwara's lab at Akita University School of Medicine, Japan, by Mary Ellen Avery. Building off of Avery's 1959 discovery that the cause of Respiratory Distress Syndrome in infants is the lack of surfactant in the lungs, Fujiwara became the first to successfully treat respiratory distress syndrome using surfactant replacement therapy
Abstract
Vial of sheep surfactant manufactured by the Tokyo Tanabe Company
Creator
Tokyo Tanabe Co., Ltd.
Date Created
1979
Is Part Of
Medicinal Preparations
Format
image
Type
physical object
Identifier
WAM catalog number 20451
Provenance
Transferred by the Center for the History of Medicine to the Warren Anatomical Museum from the Mary Ellen Avery papers, 1929-2002 (inclusive). H MS c201
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
photograph
Files
Collection
Citation
Tokyo Tanabe Co., Ltd., “Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA"),” OnView, accessed May 4, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/5448.
Item Relations
Item: Mary Ellen Avery papers, 1929-2002 (inclusive). H MS c201 | Digital Object | This Item |