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Frontmatter — Preface — Introductory Welcome — List Of Participants — Contents — I. Heparin: Structure, Mechanism of Action, Biosynthesis and Catabolism — The Function and Structure of the Heparin Molecule / Rosenberg, Robert D. — Biosynthesis of Heparin / Riesenfeld, Johan — Physiological Heparin – its Function and Fate / Dawes, Joan — Mechanism of Heparin Rebound and Heparin-Protamine Interactions / Aronson, Moshe / Fabian, Ina / Bleiberg, Ilan — II. Methods for the Determination of Heparin — Overview on Methods for the Determination of Heparin / Witt, Irene — Control of Heparin Therapy by Measurement of the Antithrombin III-Heparin-Complex / Lill, Helmut — Determination of Heparin by a Fluorogenic Synthetic Substrate / Spaethe, Reiner / Naumann, Margot / Strau, Joan — Properties of the Coatest Heparin As say / Friberger, Petter — A Sensitive Competitive Binding Assay for Heparin / Dawes, Joan — Determination of Low Dose Heparin Activities in Plasma / Rka, Ladislaus — Characterization of Heparin Preparations in Vivo by Different Test Systems / Harenberg, Job / Fussi, Fernando / Junker, Werner / Mattes, Kurt / Weber, Ellen / Zimmermann, Rainer — Determination of Heparin and Fractionated Heparin with Different Molecular Weights / Schmitz-Huebner, Ulrich — III. Clinical Usage of Heparin — Low Molecular Weight Heparin and the Prevention of Postoperative Deep Vein Thrombosis / Kakkar, V. V. / Djazaeri, B. / Fok, J. / Scully, M. / Westwick, J. — The Effect of Heparins on Platelet Release Reaction / Fabris, F. / Cella, G. / Randi, M. / Casonato, A. / Fussi, F. / Girolami, A. — Characterization of a New Potent Heparin / Bhargava, Akhil S. / Gnzel, Peter — Side Effects of Heparin / Weber, Ellen / Walter, Erhard / Harenberg, Job — Role of Heparin-Like Molecules in Atherogenesis / Rosenberg, Robert D. / Castellot, John J. / Karnovsky, Morris J. — Unresolved Problems in the Use of Heparin / Verstraete, Marc — IV. Experience with “Monitoring of Heparin Therapy” — Heparin Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis: Correlation Between Clinical Effects and Heparin Assays / Asbjrn Holm, Hans / Abildgaard, Ulrich — Heparin-, Heparin Cofactor- and Platelet Factor 4 Plasma Levels Under Heparin Treatment / Bender, Norbert / Schlegel, Jrgen / Hach, Viola / Maximilian Kirchmaier, Carl / Breddin, Hans Klaus — Determination of Heparin, Partial Thromboplastin Time and Antithrombin III after Subcutaneous Heparin Administration / Schndorf, Theodor H. / Paplham, Helena / Franz, Klaus — Monitoring of Heparin During Extracorporal Circulation in Open Heart Surgery / Spaethe, Reiner / Naumann, Margot — Chromogenic and Fluorogenic Assays – A Challenge for Conventional Monitoring of Heparin Therapy? / Marbet, German A. / Duckert, Franois — V. Concluding Discussion — Introduction — Subject Index
