Background: Recently, the use of antibiotic growth promoters has been banned in many
countries due to cross-resistance among pathogens and residues in tissues, which led to …

Objective: This project aimed at determining time-dependent ultrastructural and
haematological changes taking place in blood stored in local blood banks of Khyber …

Blood transfusion has been used as a life-saving therapeutic procedure in veterinary
medicine for a long time since Richard Lower first experimented this technique in animal …

Introduction: Erythrocytes have flexible, non-nucleated bi-concave shape with lipid bilayer
cytoskeleton. Any alterations of erythrocyte shape make it susceptible to hemolysis. Blood …

Aims: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of blood storage using CPDA-1 on
packed cell volume, methaemoglobin and oxyhaemoglobin in different ABO/Rhesus blood …

Background: This experiment was performed to investigate the effects of acid citrate
dextrose (ACD) and citrate phosphate dextrose adenine-1 (CPDA-1) on the keeping …

Background: Domestic refrigerators and freezers are generally used for the storage of blood
and blood components. In rural areas, especially in low and medium income countries, there …

Blood transfusion is a life-saving treatment for patients with massive blood loss and chronic
anemia and a supportive therapy to optimize oxygen delivery and tissue perfusion in critical …

This study was done in Elmak Nimer University Hospital blood bank, Shendi University
during the period from April to August 2018, to determine the effect of environmental storage …

Background: Blood storage particularly for transfusion is a common practice among Medical
Laboratory Scientists. However, haemolysis of blood during storage is inevitable but the …