overall: 13.3 cm x 11 cm x 5 cm; 5 1/4 in x 4 5/16 in x 1 15/16 in
Object Name:
pharmaceutical
Place made:
United States: California, San Francisco
Date made:
ca 1987
Subject:
Recombinant Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology and Genetics
Health & Medicine
ID Number:
1987.0789.01
Accession number:
1987.0789
Catalog number:
1987.0789.01
Description (Brief):
Protropin is an injectable, recombinant pharmaceutical that is used to treat children with growth problems stemming from an inability to produce their own growth hormone.
Recombinant pharmaceuticals are created by inserting genes from one species into a host species, often yeast or bacteria, where they do not naturally occur. The genes code for a desired product, and therefore the genetically modified host organisms can be grown and used as a kind of living factory to produce the product. In this case, genes coding for human growth hormone are inserted into bacteria. Bacteria produce the growth hormone, which is harvested and used as the active ingredient in Protropin.
Object consists of a plastic box with three glass vials: two vials Protropin (Recombinant growth hormone) and one vial Bacteriostatic Water for Injection.
sodium phosphate, 1.7 mg (drug active ingredients)
Measurements:
overall: 13.3 cm x 11 cm x 5 cm; 5 1/4 in x 4 5/16 in x 1 15/16 in
Object Name:
pharmaceutical
biological
Place made:
United States: California, San Francisco
Date made:
ca 1987
Subject:
Recombinant Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology and Genetics
Health & Medicine
ID Number:
1987.0789.02
Accession number:
1987.0789
Catalog number:
1987.0789.02
Description (Brief):
Protropin is an injectable, recombinant pharmaceutical that is used to treat children with growth problems stemming from an inability to produce their own growth hormone.
Recombinant pharmaceuticals are created by inserting genes from one species into a host species, often yeast or bacteria, where they do not naturally occur. The genes code for a desired product, and therefore the genetically modified host organisms can be grown and used as a kind of living factory to produce the product. In this case, genes coding for human growth hormone are inserted into bacteria. Bacteria produce the growth hormone, which is harvested and used as the active ingredient in Protropin.
Object consists of a sealed cardboard box with light blue, dark blue, and black printing. Box contains two vials Protropin and one vial Bacteriostatic Water for injection.
