Factor Inhibitor Plasma Products:
Coagulation Factor Inhibitor Plasmas (FIPs) are produced from normal human plasmas from which specific factors have been removed by selective affinity immuno-adsorption and an antibody inhibitory to the specific factor is added to provide neutralizing activity. These products can be used as a substitute for plasmas from patients that have developed neutralizing antibodies to coagulation factors. All of these products are intended for research use only.
Advantages:
Availability: FIPs are an economical and reliable alternative to human clinical source material that can be very difficult to obtain. Even samples form extremely rare conditions can be emulated in this way. FIPs are available in volumes ranging from 1ml vials up to bulk volumes.
Activity: FIPs are produced to one or more inhibitor activity categories: