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Erythropoietin

A glycoprotein hormone produced mainly by the kidneys, about 90% in adults, when the blood carries too little oxygen: it stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells. Purified in 1977, since 1989 its recombinant form has been used against the anaemia of chronic kidney disease. This family brings together the active ingredient and other impurities.

Did you know?As early as 1906 the French researchers Paul Carnot and Clotilde-Camille Deflandre, studying bled rabbits, proposed a blood factor that stimulates red cells and called it haemopoietin.