There are four types of globulin proteins: Alpha 1, Alpha 2, beta, and gamma globulin proteins. If your healthcare provider orders a total protein test, they want to measure the amount of Alpha 1 ...

This medication may rarely cause serious problems from blood clots (such as heart attack, stroke, blood clots in the lungs or legs). You may be at increased risk for blood clots if you are an ...

Forty-eight patients with multiple myeloma, most of them ambulatory outpatients, at 5 co-operating hospitals,‡ were treated. Patients were entered in the double-blind study by randomized card ...

Parental diabetes was associated with a significant increase in gamma globulin in their offspring (geometric mean [±1 SE]): neither parent diabetic, 1.126 [1.103 1.149] g/100 ml; one diabetic pa ...

Gamma globulin, an antibody-rich component of human blood once used to protect health workers and travelers from disease, was highly effective at treating pinkeye, researchers at the University of ...

In this study, we showed that total gamma globulin concentration, a nonspecific measure of the adaptive immune system, is influenced in the Pima population by both familial and ethnic factors and ...

Gamma Globulin in Polio The field trials have most significantly shown that small amounts of antibody are sufficient to prevent the disease, a fact that enhances the prospect of a successful ...