BACKGROUND Red cell inherited hemoglobin (Hb) anomalies are commonly encountered in the central region of India. These cause a public health concern due to high level of morbidity, mortality, and fetal loss in the backward, underprivileged, and vulnerable people. PURPOSE To report five typical families of Hb E disorders for the first time detected and identified from various districts of the ...

Like vaccines, biologic proteins can be very immunogenic for reasons including route of administration, dose frequency and the underlying antigenicity of the therapeutic protein. Because the impact of immunogenicity can be quite severe, regulatory agencies are developing risk-based guidelines for immunogenicity screening. T cell epitopes are at the root of the immunogenicity issue. Through thei...

Hb-based O(2)-carrying solutions (HbOCs) have been developed as red blood cell substitutes for use in patients undergoing hemodilution. Variously modified Hb with diverse solution properties have been shown to produce variable hemodynamic responses. We examined, through pulsed-Doppler velocimetry, the systemic and renal hemodynamic effects of dextran-benzene-tetracarboxylate-conjugated (Hb-Dex-...

BACKGROUND Ongoing discussion on anaemia management and target haemoglobin (Hb) levels in patients on haemodialysis with erythropoietin treatment require a systematic approach in evaluating current practice. Aim of the present study was to develop a new classification system to easily monitor Hb trajectories and categorise patients on haemodialysis. METHODS Routine data from five dialysis cen...

Free hemoglobin (Hb) and red blood cells augment hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) by scavenging nitric oxide (NO). S-nitrosation of Hb (SNO-Hb) may confer vasodilatory properties by allowing release of NO during deoxygenation and/or by interaction with small-molecular weight thiols. Likewise, cross-linking of free Hb may limit its vasoconstrictive effect by preventing abluminal movement...

PURPOSE To investigate prognostic impact of chemoradiotherapy-induced hemoglobin (Hb) decrease on treatment outcomes of endemic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight hundred and fifteen non-metastatic NPC, receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy (NACT+RT group) or concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CCRT group), were enrolled in this study, who were regrou...

Fulfilling the requirements of point-of-care testing (POCT) training regarding proper execution of measurements and compliance with internal and external quality control specifications is a great challenge. Our aim was to compare the values of the highly critical parameter hemoglobin (Hb) determined with POCT devices and central laboratory analyzer in the highly vulnerable setting of an emergen...

Dihydroartemisinin and other artemisinin derivatives are relatively ineffective against Plasmodium falciparum infecting alpha-thalassemic erythrocytes, namely hemoglobin (Hb) H or HbH/Hb Constant Spring erythrocytes, as compared with those infecting genetically normal erythrocytes. The variant erythrocytes accumulate radiolabeled dihydroartemisinin to a much higher extent than the normal ones, ...

INTRODUCTION Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited disorder of haemoglobin worldwide. This study evaluated the chromatographic patterns and red blood cell indices of sickle cell patients to determine the co-inheritance of other haemoglobin(Hb) variants and β-thalassaemia trait. METHODS Red cell indices, blood film, sickle solubility test, Hb electrophoresis using alkaline cel...

This magnetic affinity immunoassay (MAIA) quantifies hemoglobins (Hb) S, C, and F in hemolysates from adults or newborns. Monospecific antisera to the hemoglobins are covalently conjugated to magnetic beads and reacted with the corresponding 125I-labeled hemoglobin. After centrifugation to separate the free and antibody-bound 125I-labeled hemoglobin, the amount of radioactive hemoglobin in the ...