CHANGZHOU, China — On a dusty lane in east China, a small factory sitting amid strawberry and vegetable fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked to ...

Heparins are a group of related compounds comprised of a mixture of glycosaminoglycans usually derived from porcine intestine. They exert their effect by binding to antithrombin, which inhibits both ...

Heparin (ball and stick structure) activates antithrombin-III (gray) to bind to and inhibit thrombin (purple). All this raises the questions: Just what is heparin? Where does it come from? What does ...

Cheap, abundant man-made chemical compound is found in blood thinner. March 19, 2008 — -- Investigators believe they have discovered what's contaminating the blood-thinning medication heparin and ...

Heparin is a naturally occurring anticoagulant that prevents blood clots from forming. It has several uses in medicine; however, there is controversy surrounding the use of heparin. One of the most ...

Heparin is an anticoagulant drug that prevents the formation of new clots as well as the expansion of clots that already exist. Heparin occurs naturally in the body and is produced by basophils and ...

WASHINGTON — A compound related to a common nutritional supplement has been identified as the contaminant in a blood-thinning drug imported from China that sickened hundreds of frail patients in the U ...

ON NOV. 19, 2007, St. Louis Children's Hospital noticed the first of several acute allergic reactions in children undergoing dialysis. The hospital reported the reactions to the Missouri Department of ...