Harrington–Hollingsworth Experiment
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Title of a 1950 experiment in hematology, where the academic staff of Barnes Hospital gave themselves transfusions of the plasma from a patient with ITP to observe the effect on platelet counts in normal subjects. The staff observed reduced platelet counts that recovered after a period of several days. This experiment established the autoimmune etiology of ITP. [1] [2]
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- ^ HARRINGTON WJ, MINNICH V, HOLLINGSWORTH JW, MOORE CV (1951). "Demonstration of a thrombocytopenic factor in the blood of patients with thrombocytopenic purpura". J. Lab. Clin. Med. 38 (1): 1–10. PMID 14850832.

