Miguel Angel Layrisse Marrero, Venezuelan nutritionist and
hematologist (Caracas 06 May 1919 –
Caracas 22 February 2002) Authored over 267 scientific papers and 7 books
Discovered Diego blood factor, the first practically confined to people of Mongoloid origin With T.
Arends & R. Domíguez Sisco. Nuevo grupo sanguíneo encontrado en
descendientes de indios. Acta
Med. Venez. 3:132, 1955 With Z.
Layrisse, E. García, J. Wilbert & J.R. Parra. New Rh phenotype, Dcceieif,
found in a Chibcha Indian tribe. Nature
191:503-4, 1961 With T.
Arends, M.L. Gallango, J. Wilbert & H.D. Heinen. Albumin Warao: new type of
human alloalbuminemia Blood 33(3):414-20, 1969 With Z. Layrisse, M. Pulido Rodríguez & H.D. Heinen. LD homozygous cells in the Warao
population: a possible new allele at the LD1 Locus within the main
histocompatibility region in man. Tissue Antigen 6(4):326-34, 2008 Described a new property of vitamin A that enhances iron absorption in foods With M.N. García Casal, L. Solano, M.A. Barón et al. New property of vitamin A and
beta-carotene on human iron absorption: effect on phytate and polyphenols as
inhibitors of iron absorption. Arch. Latinoam. Nutr. 50(3):243-8, 2000 PATENTS Ferroivic, an iron compound (1993) Hematalaco, an automatic device for blood transfusion in newborn babies (1965) |
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