Hemostasis and Animal Venoms

Hubert Pirkle is Professor of Pathology at the College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine. Formerly he taught at the University of Louisville (1955-70) and was a visiting investigator in the Department of Blood Coagulation Research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden (1964-65). The author or coauthor of 75 articles, book chapters, and abstracts, most of them concerning the biochemistry of blood coagulation, he is a member of the American Association of Pathologists, American Chemical Society, American Heart Association Council on Thrombosis, International Academy of Pathologists, and International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Francis S. Markland Jr. is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles, where he is also affiliated with the Comprehensive Cancer Center. An editorial council member of Toxicon, the International Journal of Toxinology, he is currently a member of the Biochemical Endocrinology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.

Contributors, Preface, 1. COAGULANT FACTORS, 11. FIBRINOLYSIS, III. INHIBITORS, IV. PLATELET ACTIVATION AND AGGREGATION, V. HEMORRHAGIC FACTORS, VI. OTHER LABORATORY STUDIES, VII. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS, Taxonomic Index, Subject Index