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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI104072

INDOCYANINE GREEN: OBSERVATIONS ON ITS PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, PLASMA DECAY, AND HEPATIC EXTRACTION

Gilbert R. Cherrick, Samuel W. Stein, Carroll M. Leevy, and Charles S. Davidson

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and the Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Heart Institute. Present address: Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz Medical Center, Shiraz, Iran.

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Research Fellow of the American Heart Association, Inc.

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Public Health Service Special Research Fellow of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Present address: Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, N. J.

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This investigation was supported in part by the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-193-MD-2013, and in part by the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund.

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Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and the Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

†

Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Heart Institute. Present address: Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz Medical Center, Shiraz, Iran.

‡

Research Fellow of the American Heart Association, Inc.

§

Public Health Service Special Research Fellow of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Present address: Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, N. J.

*

This investigation was supported in part by the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-193-MD-2013, and in part by the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund.

Find articles by Stein, S. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and the Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

†

Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Heart Institute. Present address: Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz Medical Center, Shiraz, Iran.

‡

Research Fellow of the American Heart Association, Inc.

§

Public Health Service Special Research Fellow of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Present address: Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, N. J.

*

This investigation was supported in part by the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-193-MD-2013, and in part by the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund.

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Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and the Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

†

Public Health Service Research Fellow of the National Heart Institute. Present address: Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz Medical Center, Shiraz, Iran.

‡

Research Fellow of the American Heart Association, Inc.

§

Public Health Service Special Research Fellow of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Present address: Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, N. J.

*

This investigation was supported in part by the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-193-MD-2013, and in part by the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund.

Find articles by Davidson, C. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Published April 1, 1960 - More info

Published in Volume 39, Issue 4 on April 1, 1960
J Clin Invest. 1960;39(4):592–600. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI104072.
© 1960 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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