Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) 
 
   SERIES TITLE     Donald Van Dyke Files  
 
  INCLUSIVE DATES   1957 1975 
 
  ARRANGEMENT  Varies 
 
  VOLUME  10 cubic feet 
 
  DESCRIPTION  This series documents Van Dyke's work on blood and 
               bone marrow  studies. Particular fields of 
               research included studies of  human erythropoietic 
               activity in plasma, cardiac evaluation  from 
               radioisotope dynamics, and blood transport through 
               bone  marrow. Studies include both animal and 
               human experimentation,  chiefly for the 
               advancement of research on forms of leukemia,  
               myeloma, and anemia. Techniques included induced 
               parabiosis in  animals (fusion of two animals to 
               study passage of solutes from  one to the other); 
               skin grafts; spinal cuts; exposure to light  and 
               dark, and in both humans and animals, 
               fluorokinesis, assays  using radioactive iron, use 
               of alpha-corticotrophin, ACTH,  EHDP, and 
               synthetic calcitonin; and studies of iron involved  
               femur injections. The series consists of 
               notebooks, data,  graphs, manuscripts, drafts, 
               references, photographs, negatives, x rays, 
               correspondence, magnetic tapes of data, and  
               conference planning materials. Some subjects were 
               prisoners and  were recruited from the United 
               States Public Health Service or  San Francisco 
               Public Health Service; work was also done on  
               patients from San Francisco General Hospital. 
               Human subjects  included normal controls and 
               patients, both adults and children. Correspondence 
               and administrative records have gaps.          
 
RESTRICTIONS   This series contains privacy material.          
 
LOCATION OF   RECORDS    
 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory    
Archives and Records Office   
Berkeley, CA 94720    
 
Federal Records Center   
1000 Commodore Drive   
San Bruno, CA 94066