15 Development, Lin and his colleagues describe the GFP-endowed zebrafish, whose
blood cells glow green when exposed to blue fight.
The purpose of this meeting is to educate physicians about white
blood cell labeling agents and discuss their applications in clinical practice.
Under a new program at the Stanford Blood Center, donors can now give twice as many red
blood cells in one sitting and walk away with little or no discomfort while losing no more blood volume than with a whole blood donation.
If the method works for human
blood cells, it would likely be a windfall for the treatment of cancer and genetic disorders.
The study, conducted at a leading prion research institute in Europe, found that the Pall Leukotrap(R) Affinity Prion Reduction Filter reduces infectious vCJD prions from red
blood cell concentrates below the limit of detection of the Western blot assay.
OTCBB: SGNC), a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on the development of an oxygen-carrying synthetic substitute for human red
blood cells, today announced that its synthetic red
blood cell substitute, PHER-O2, is being tested in various phases of animal toxicity trials being conducted by three medical schools in the United States and Canada.
In parallel with its growing immune response, a host makes red
blood cells to replace the ones incapacitated by the parasites.
But outside the red
blood cell, the units fall apart.
The randomized, single-blind, controlled, multi-center Phase I study of the INTERCEPT red
blood cell system will enroll approximately 28 patients and compare the recovery and lifespan of autologous red
blood cells prepared using a modified S-303 process with conventional, untreated red
blood cells.
CTI) today reported data demonstrating that inhibition of phosphatidic acid (PA) by Lisofylline, the company's proprietary supportive care oncology product, prevented the induction of hematopoietic inhibitors resulting in accelerated recovery of red
blood cells, white
blood cells and platelets in animals receiving high dose chemotherapy.
It also is used to increase the red
blood cell count in those patients.
In the exogenous (spiking) phase of the study, scrapie-infected brain homogenates were added to human red
blood cells and then passed through a prion removal filter.
