We present results for the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment due to strange quark-connected vacuum polarisation effects. Simulations were performed using RBC–UKQCD’s Nf = 2 + 1 domain wall fermion ensembles with physical light sea quark masses at two lattice spacings. We consider a large number of analysis scenarios in order to obtain solid estimates for residu...

Erythrocytes (RBC) from untrained male Wistar rats and rat glomerular endothelial cells (EC) were used to investigate the effects of acute exercise (speed: 20 m/min, slope: 0, duration: 1 hour) on RBC membrane protein oxidation and adhesion to cultured EC. Experimental animals were divided into juvenile (age 10 weeks) and adult (age 30 weeks) groups for these studies. Immediately following exer...

The vasoocclusive process in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) is complex and involves interactions among sickle erythrocytes (SS-RBC), vascular endothelium, and plasma and cellular components. The role of neutrophils (PMN) in vasoocclusion has not been examined. Patients with SCD appear to have chronically activated PMN. Because the first step in PMN activation is particle recognition, w...

This study was designed to examine the effect of two single nucleotide polymorphisms in the reduced folate carrier 1 (RFC1 80G>A) and the glutamate carboxypeptidase 2 (GCP2 1561C>T) gene on total homocysteine (tHcy) plasma level and folate status in 120 chronic dialysis patients. Red blood cell folate concentration was higher in patients with the GCP2 CT or TT genotype (ANOVA, P = 0.04). Among ...

Folate is a generic term for a water-soluble B-complex vitamin which plays an important role in protein synthesis and metabolism and other processes related to cell multiplication and tissue growth. Pregnant and lactating women are at increased risk of folic acid deficiency because generally their dietary folate is insufficient to meet their physiological requirements and the metabolic demands ...

units for the synthesis of the purine ring and the methylation of uridylate to thymidylate is a fundamental requirement for cell replication. The mammalian cell cannot synthesize the basic pteroylglutamate structure and, consequently, growth and maturation of both normal and neoplastic cells require an exogenous source of this vitamin. For this reason, the folate coenzymes have been the target ...

BACKGROUND Folate deficiency is associated with cardiovascular disease, megaloblastic anemia, and with hyperhomocysteinemia. This study has been undertaken to investigate the role of folate status during the progression of the diabetic retinopathy. METHODS We measured the plasma levels of homocysteine, folic acid, and red cell folate in 70 diabetic type 2 patients with nonproliferative diabet...

1.5 Range of Application, Dosage, Mode of Administration 1.5.1 Indications 1.5.1.1 General Principles 1.5.1.2 Acute Blood Loss 1.5.1.3 Chronic Anemias 1.5.2 Indications for Special RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.1 Irradiated Leukocyte-Depleted RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.2 Washed RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.3 Cryopreserved RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.4 CMV and Parvovirus B19 1.5.3 Selection and Dosage of RBC Concentr...

1.5 Range of Application, Dosage, Mode of Administration 1.5.1 Indications 1.5.1.1 General Principles 1.5.1.2 Acute Blood Loss 1.5.1.3 Chronic Anemias 1.5.2 Indications for Special RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.1 Irradiated Leukocyte-Depleted RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.2 Washed RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.3 Cryopreserved RBC Concentrates 1.5.2.4 CMV and Parvovirus B19 1.5.3 Selection and Dosage of RBC Concentr...

Antistreptolysin O (ASO) titers were determined on 117 human sera with rabbit, human, and sheep red blood cells (RBC) as the indicator system in the ASO tube test. The titers of 65% of the sera were one dilution step higher when a 5% suspension of sheep RBC was used instead of a 5% suspension of rabbit RBC. Titers were one dilution step higher in 42.7% of the sera when a 5% suspension of human ...