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Blood Substitutes

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ISBN-10: 0127597603

ISBN-13: 9780127597607

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert M. Winslow

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This textbook on blood substitutes covers topics including physiological basis, clinical applications, toxicity and side effects, perfluorocarbon-based oxygen carriers, hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers, and lipsomes and related products.
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Book details

List price: $305.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 10/5/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 8.27" wide x 11.02" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 4.136
Language: English

List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Background
Historical Background
Transfusion Medicine
Regulatory Perspectives on Clinical Trials for Oxygen Therapeutics in Trauma and Transfusion Practice
Physiological Basis
Clinical Physiology: Oxygen Transport and the Transfusion Trigger
The Role of Oxygen and Hemoglobin Diffusion in Oxygen Transport by Cell-Free Hemoglobins
Oxygen Transport Properties of Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers: Studies Using Artificial Capillaries and Mathematical Simulation
Mechanisms of Oxygen Transport in the Microcirculation: Effects of Cell-Free Oxygen Carriers
Shear Stress, Mechanotransduction and the Flow Properties of Blood
Local Regulation of Blood Flow
Clinical Applications
Clinical Indications for Blood Substitutes and Optimal Properties
Crystalloid Solutions
Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers as Resuscitative Solutions for Trauma and Combat Casualty Care
Surgical Hemorrhage
Clinical Trials in Cardiac Surgery
Hemodilution
Clinical Hemodilution
Potential for Blood Substitutes in Tissue Ischemia
Toxicity and Side Effects
Redox and Radical Reactions of Hemoglobin Solutions: Toxicities and Protective Strategies
Pro-Oxidant Activity of Hemoglobin and Endothelial Cytotoxicity
Renal Toxicity
Hemoglobin and Neurotoxicity
The Role of Inflammation in the Toxicity of Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers
Hemoglobin-Induced Myocardial Lesions
Perfluorocarbon-Based Oxygen Carriers
Fluorocarbon Emulsions as in vivo Oxygen Delivery Systems: Background and Chemistry
Fluosol: The First Commercial Injectable Perfluorocarbon Oxygen Carrier
Perftoran
Rational Development of Oxyfluor
Oxygent, A Perfluorochemical-Based Oxygen Therapeutic for Surgical Patients
Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers
The Structural and Functional Properties of Hemoglobin and their Relevance for a Hemoglobin-Based Blood Substitute
Hemoglobin Modification
Designing Recombinant Hemoglobin for Use as a Blood Substitute
Design, Conformational, Functional and Physiological Characterization of Recombinant Polymeric Heme-Proteins
[alpha alpha]-Crosslinked Hemoglobin
DCLHb and rHb1.1
Clinical Studies with DCLHb
Hemopure (HBOC-201, Hemoglobin Glutamer-250 (Bovine)): Preclinical Studies
HBOC-201 (Hemoglobin Glutamer-250 (Bovine), Hemopure): Clinical Studies
Polyhemoglobin-Enzymes as New-Generation Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Therapeutics
Surface Decoration of Hemoglobin with Polyethylene Glycol
Hemospan (MP4), A Human Hemoglobin Modified with Maleimide-Polyethylene Glycol
Dextran-Hemoglobin
Development of Non-Extravasating Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers
Liposomes and Related Products
Liposome-Encapsulated Hemoglobin: History, Preparation and Evaluation
Hemoglobin Vesicles as a Molecular Assembly: Characteristics of Preparation Process and Performances as Artificial Oxygen Carriers
Nanodimension Biodegradable Polymeric Membrane Artificial Red Blood Cells
Albumin-Heme: A Synthetic Heme-Based Oxygen Carrier
Index