Osmotic Pump
name: label: maker
content: Alza Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Alzet Osmotic Pump Model 1007d, a continuous drug delivery device for animal research.
label: Description
content: Alejandro Zaffaroni (1923-2014), a Uruguayan of Italian descent who received a biochemistry PhD from the University of Rochester, established the Alza Corp. in Mountain View, Ca., in 1968. The firm, a major pioneer in the field of drug delivery systems, was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2001.
label: Description
content: Ref: Felix Theeuwes, “Osmotically Powered Agent Dispensing Device with Filling Means,” U.S. Patent 3,760,984A (Sept. 25, 1973), assigned to Alza Corp.
label: Description
content: Andrew Pollack, “Alejandro Zaffaroni, Biotech Entrepreneur, Dies at 91,” New York Times (March 7, 2014), p. A23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alza Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0046.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0046.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pump
label: Object Name
content: pump
label: Object Name
content: drug delivery device
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.5 cm x .6 cm; x 9/16 in x 1/4 in