Erythrocytes
Erythrocytes, also known as red blood cells, contain the pigment hemoglobin that has the remarkable capacity to combine with and release oxygen. Human red blood cells contain a 33% soluti...
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Blood transfusions have saved millions of lives, yet stored red cells may be less effective than hoped for because they can quickly lose much of their ability to deliver oxygen.As soon as donated b...
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Much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for it to deliver oxygen to the tissues. Nitric oxide, which helps keep blood vessels open, begins breakin...
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Ambika, one of the oldest Asian elephants in North America, has suffered from recent health problems but seems to be improving, the National Zoo said Thursday.The 59-year-old elephant lost her appe...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Researchers in Germany have revealed for the first
time how malaria parasites avoid the immune system when they move
from the liver to red blood cells - a jo...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Daily pain is more common
and severe among people with sickle cell disease than
previously documented, U.S. researchers said Monday. The researchers asked 232 patients )n Vi...
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Boxer Shane Mosley is accused of using BALCO designer steroids "the clear" and "the cream" as part of a doping regimen before a 2003 fight against Oscar De La Hoya, SI.com reported Friday.Citing mu...
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Two months after federal regulators ordered additional warnings be added to the labels of blockbuster anemia drugs, government advisers said Thursday Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson should be ...
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Two months after federal regulators ordered additional warnings be added to the labels of blockbuster anemia drugs, government advisers said Thursday that Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson shoul...
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Two months after federal regulators ordered additional warnings be added to the labels of blockbuster anemia drugs, government advisers said Thursday Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson should be ...
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Erythrocytes
Banked blood can lose chemical needed to supply oxygen
