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Subject(s)

• Antiviral agents—Research—History [Browse]
• Scientists—Biography [Browse]
• Virology—Research—History [Browse]
• Interferon—Research—History [Browse]
• Virus diseases—Immunological aspects [Browse]
• Immunologists—Finland—Biography [Browse]
• Cantell, K. (Kari) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Summary note

The Finnish doctor Kari Cantell is one of the scientists to whom the development of the drugs called interferons can be attributed. Interferons have achieved an important place in the treatment of cancer, viral infections and multiple sclerosis. In the 1960s Cantell and his coworkers developed a method for the preparation of interferon in white blood cells. During those years, most of the global production of interferon took place in Finland and the vast majority of the clinical studies in the world employed Finnish interferon. The memoirs of Cantell record interferon's long road from the labor.

ISBN

• 9810231482
• 9789810231484

LCCN

98198486

OCLC

39843134

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