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... implications on the pathophysiology and diagnosis of various diseases involving red blood cells. Key words: red blood cell, gene expression analysis Introduction Human erythrocytes discard ... 2005;115:3370-3377. 18. Kleinbongard P, Schulz R, Rassaf T et al. Red blood cells ex- press a functional endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Blood 2006;107:2943-2951. 19. Newman PJ, Gorski J, White ... International Publisher. All rights reserved Research Paper Gene expression analysis of human red blood cells Sveta Kabanova 1 * , Petra Kleinbongard 1 * , Jens Volkmer 1 , Birgit Andrée 2 , Malte...

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... hemagglutination assay [4], where the ability of a given virus to bind to and agglutinate red blood cells (RBCs) is measured. In the case of influenza, for example, the hemagglu- tination assay takes advantage ... 16991712 ê 2011 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2011 FEBS Glycomics-based analysis of chicken red blood cells provides insight into the selectivity of the viral agglutination assay Udayanath Aich 1 , ... event. Agglutination Keywords glycans; influenza; mass spectrometry; nuclear magnetic resonance; red blood cells Correspondence R. Sasisekharan, 77 Massachusetts Avenue E25-519, Cambridge, MA 02139,...

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... (~60% vs. >95%), com- pared to the 293 cells. On Northern blot we were not able to detect the shRNAs transcribed from the H1 promoter in the QCE-6 cells while the 293 cells produced high amount ... of NO. COS 7 cells were killed by NO as tested by the addition of NO-donors. Similar cytotoxicity was observed when COS 7 cells were co-cultured with macrophages and this effect was reduced by ... levels of reduced glutathione (GSH), oxidized glutathione (GSSG) and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) in rat erythrocytes and estimated the ratio of GSH/GSSG and the redox index. ...

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... appeared to have increased sensitivity relative to the peripheral blood at low plasma concentrations LXRs are expressed in peripheral blood cellsFigure 1 LXRs are expressed in peripheral blood cells. ... peripheral blood cells did not occur until plasma concentrations moderately exceeded the 0.23 uM EC50 for ABCA1 induc- tion in J774 cells. Similarly, induction of ABCA1 and ABCG1 in peripheral blood cells ... enriched in immune system cells, was compared to induction in peripheral blood cells. For GW3965, there was a strong correlation between the induction of ABCA1 or ABCG1 in the blood and spleen (Figure...

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... In the United States, more than 14 million units of packed red blood cells (RBCs) are administered annually, many of which are administered in the ICU [9]. Approximately 40-80% o f RBC transfusions ... with waiver of written informed consent (# 09-953). Red blood cell transfusion characteristics Packed red blood cell units were obtained from the blood bank (St. John’s Mercy Medical Center). None ... Rush BFJ: Decreased red blood cell deformability and impaired oxygen utilization during human sepsis. Am Surg 1993, 59:65-68. 37. Baskurt OK, Gelmont D, Meiselman HJ: Red blood cell deformability...

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... meta-analyses of leukoreduced blood transfusions in surgical patients. Transfusion 2007, 47:573-581. 73. Fergusson D, Khanna MP, Tinmouth A, Hebert PC: Transfusion of leukoreduced red blood cells may decrease ... of allogeneic red blood cells a systematic review. Transfus Med 2003, 13:275-285. 86. Amin M, Fergusson D, Wilson K, Tinmouth A, Aziz A, Coyle D, Hebert P: The societal unit cost of allogenic red blood cells ... been shown to be related to the infusion of white blood cells (WBCs) present in the blood product. Leukoreduction is a process in which WBCs are reduced in number through centrifugation or filtration...

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... to these results in human red cells, it is interesting to note that PC is totally absent in the red cells of sheep and is reduced markedly in camels, and in the red cells of rats it is significantly ... History of Red Cell Membrane Research Figure 1.4 The triton shells prepared from red cells of hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) patients still demonstrate elliptocytic shape (right) compared with ... of research [10]. They discovered that the membrane surface/cell volume ratio was reduced concurrently with loss of the dis- coid form of these red cells with hereditary spherocytosis. Ham et...

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... synovium cells were con- sidered to respond better to exogenous IL-18 than the blood cells did. IL-18BP decreased IL-12-stimulated IFN-γ production from total RA synovium cells cultured with ... CD4 + T cells of blood and synovium samples from RA patients to produce IFN-γ and/or IL-4. Total RA synovium cells showed a higher Th1 and a lower Th2 fre- quency than peripheral blood cells [12]. ... IL-18-binding protein; PBMCs, peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Figure 3 Effect of IL-12 and IL-18 on rheumatoid arthritis synovium cells. (a) Rheumatoid arthritis synovium cells (1 ì10 6 /ml in RPMI 1640 medium...

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... 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Vol 8 No 4 Research article Gene profiling in white blood cells predicts infliximab responsiveness in rheumatoid arthritis Thierry Lequerré 1,2,3,4 , Anne-Christine ... (infliximab) are lacking in rheumatoid arthritis, we have used gene profiling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells to predict a good versus poor response to infliximab. Thirty three patients with very ... unable to predict individual responsive- ness to TBA [14]. Therefore, to enable such a prediction, global approaches based on proteomics or transcriptomics have been recently considered [27,28]....

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