Hepatitis B and the Prevention of Primary Cancer of the Liver: Selected Publications of Baruch S. Blumberg

by Blumberg, Baruch S.

• ISBN13: 9789810232177
• ISBN10: 9810232179
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	v
I INTRODUCTORY ESSAY	1	(62)
Introduction	3	(1)
General Comments	3	(1)
A Brief Chronology	4	(1)
Early Training and Research	4	(7)
Inherited Differences in Susceptibility to Disease, 1950--51	4	(2)
Clinical Training and Research, 1951--55	6	(3)
Studies on Hyaluronic Acid, 1953--57	9	(2)
Genetic Polymorphism	11	(12)
The Concept of Polymorphism	11	(3)
Polymorphisms in Spain and Nigeria, 1956, 1957	14	(3)
Continuing Studies. The National Institutes of Health, 1957--64	17	(1)
Arctic Alaska, 1958	18	(3)
Rongelap Atoll and the Central Pacific, 1954	21	(1)
The Albumin Polymorphism, 1966	22	(1)
The Study of Transfused Patients, 1960	23	(4)
Ag, an Isoantibody Polymorphism of Low-density Lipoproteins, 1962	23	(4)
The Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 1964--1997	27	(3)
Australia Antigen and the Hepatitis B Virus, 1964	30	(2)
Control of Post-transfusion Hepatitis B, 1969	32	(2)
Invention of Hepatitis B Vaccine, 1969	34	(3)
HBV and Primary Cancer of the Liver, 1969	37	(5)
Iron and Iron-binding Proteins, 1974	42	(1)
HBV, Genetics, and Related Topics, 1967	43	(5)
Gender	43	(2)
Genetics, Maternal Transmission, and Early Childhood Infection	45	(2)
HBV and Human Evolution	47	(1)
Methods of Transmission, 1967	48	(3)
Perinatal, Venereal, Needles and Other Devices	48	(1)
Insects, 1973	49	(2)
Anti-virals	51	(6)
Initial Studies, 1984	51	(2)
Studies in India, 1986	53	(2)
Anti-virals From Plants. Further Studies	55	(1)
Glycoproteins. Balliol College, Oxford University, 1989--94	56	(1)
Miscellaneous, Ephermeral, and Unpublished Articles	57	(2)
Hepatitis B Virus. A Subjective View	59	(4)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: BIBLIOGRAPHY	63	(14)
FACSIMILES OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS	77	(550)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	627