Protropin; somatrem for injection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1987
name: label: maker
content: Genentech Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Recombinant Pharmaceuticals
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0789.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0789
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0789.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: biological
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: somatrem, 5 mg or 10 IU (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: mannitol, 40.0 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: sodium phosphate, 1.7 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.3 cm x 11 cm x 5 cm; 5 1/4 in x 4 5/16 in x 1 15/16 in