plasmogen

English

Etymology

From plasma +‎ -gen.

Noun

plasmogen (uncountable)

(biochemistry) The important living portion of protoplasm, considered a chemical substance of the highest elaboration.
Germ plasm and idioplasm are forms of plasmogen.
- 1887 October, W.R. Lighton, “Microscopical Technique”, in The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, volume 8, number 10, page 196:
  With regard to the structure of protoplasm, he held that it was vesicular, the reticulum or walls of the vesicles being the part of the protoplasm in which the plasmogen resides, which is not contained in vesicular spaces.
- 1912, Hugh S. Elliot, “Modern Vitalism”, in Bedrock, volume 1, page 328:
  With further cooling, and under certain physical conditions, with which we are unacquainted, combinations of yet greater complexity began to appear in special association with carbon, till at length the proteins and plasmogen were reached; and the peculiar physical and chemical properties of these complex substances are what we now call vital.
- 1913, Edwin Ray Lankester, Science from an Easy Chair, page 191:
  To construct plasmogen itself is a task for the chemists of the distant future.
Misspelling of plasminogen.
- 2014, Fathimunisa Begum, Immunology, page 556:
  After binding to fibrin of blood clot, the plasmogen activator causes plasmin to accumulate in the vicinity of the clot.
- 2021, Louis Dechmann, Valere Aude: Dare To Be Healthy:
  In all cases of constitutional disease, plasmogen is used to bring about a proper regeneration and preservation of the blood-cells.
- 2021, Andleeb Khan, Muneeb U Rehman, Black Seeds (Nigella sativa), page 103:
  The administrations of N. sativa essential oil (25-200μg oil/mL( resulted in a substantial downregulation of the particular fibrinolytic product which included the plasmogen activator (t-PA), plasmogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1), and urokinase type plasmogen activator (u-PA) in cell cultures.