Advanced biomaterials in cell preservation: Hypothermic preservation and cryopreservation

Y Ma, L Gao, Y Tian, P Chen, J Yang, L Zhang - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Cell-based medicine has made great advances in clinical diagnosis and therapy for various
refractory diseases, inducing a growing demand for cell preservation as support technology …

The rhesus site

FF Wagner, WA Flegel - Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy, 2014 - karger.com
Abstract The Rhesus Site is a resource for information of the 'Rhesus' blood group. It is
intended for specialists and non-specialists. The website details research in the field …

Incomplete inhibition by eculizumab: mechanistic evidence for residual C5 activity during strong complement activation

MJ Harder, N Kuhn, H Schrezenmeier… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Eculizumab inhibits the terminal, lytic pathway of complement by blocking the activation of
the complement protein C5 and shows remarkable clinical benefits in certain complement …

Cryopreservative Effects of the Recombinant Ice-Binding Protein from the Arctic Yeast Leucosporidium sp. on Red Blood Cells

SG Lee, HY Koh, JH Lee, SH Kang, HJ Kim - Applied biochemistry and …, 2012 - Springer
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) have important functions in many freeze-tolerant organisms. The
proteins non-colligatively lower the freezing point and functionally inhibit ice recrystallization …

IL-33 orchestrated the interaction and immunoregulatory functions of alternatively activated macrophages and regulatory T cells in vitro

MY Mok, CY Luo, FP Huang, WY Kong… - The Journal of …, 2023 - journals.aai.org
Our group has previously demonstrated elevated serum-soluble ST2 in patients with active
systemic lupus erythematosus, suggesting a role of IL-33 in the underlying pathogenesis …

Combining cooling enhancement and trehalose dehydration to enable scalable volume cryopreservation of red blood cells with low concentration of glycerol

L Shen, X Qin, M Wang, D Gao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing the cooling rate is often an alternative to increasing concentrations of
cryoprotectants to inhibit harmful ice growth during freezing. Processing cell suspensions as …

DARC alleles and Duffy phenotypes in African Americans

P Schmid, KR Ravenell, SL Sheldon, WA Flegel - Transfusion, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: The DARC (Duffy blood group, chemokine receptor) gene encodes for a
transmembrane glycoprotein that functions as a chemokine transporter, is a receptor for …

Properdin is a key player in lysis of red blood cells and complement activation on endothelial cells in hemolytic anemias caused by complement dysregulation

JY Chen, NS Galwankar, HN Emch, SS Menon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The complement system alternative pathway (AP) can be activated excessively in
inflammatory diseases, particularly when there is defective complement regulation. For …

Control of electron transfer by protein dynamics in photosynthetic reaction centers

M Gorka, DA Cherepanov, AY Semenov… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Trehalose and glycerol are low molecular mass sugars/polyols that have found widespread
use in the protection of native protein states, in both short-and long-term storage of …

Development, validation, and potential applications of biotinylated red blood cells for posttransfusion kinetics and other physiological studies: evidenced‐based …

DM Mock, D Nalbant, SV Kyosseva, RL Schmidt… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The current reference method in the United States for measuring in vivo population red
blood cell (RBC) kinetics utilizes chromium‐51 (51Cr) RBC labeling for determining RBC …