Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA")

Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA")

Pulmonary Surfactants

Avery, Mary Ellen, 1927-

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

Vial of sheep surfactant manufactured by the Tokyo Tanabe Company

Tokyo Tanabe Co., Ltd.

1979

Medicinal Preparations

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WAM catalog number 20451

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

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