Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers as Red Cell Substitutes and Oxygen Therapeutics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kim, Hae Won. (Editor), Greenburg, A. Gerson. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Brief historical account of HBOC development
  • Physiology of respiration
  • Oxygen transport to tissues
  • Pathophysiology of acute anemia
  • Global blood safety and need for safe blood supply
  • Blood transfusion and its limitations
  • Scientific basis and design of HBOCs
  • HBOCs: a regulatory perspective
  • Current HBOC products in development
  • Clinical indications and clinical trials of HBOCs
  • HBOCs and adverse events observed in clinical trials
  • HBOC-mediated vasoactivity and hypertension
  • HBOC and oxygen and nitrogen radical mediated toxicity
  • HBOCs and clinical laboratory interference
  • Animal models for HBOC studies
  • New emerging Technologies for universal RBCs
  • Future prospects.