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Blood Substitutes
Research from C.S. Cohn and co-researchers yields new findings on blood substitutes
June 18th, 2009
"Current demands over the blood supply in developed and developing nations will compound over time," scientists writing in the journal Critical Care Clinics report. "Red cell substitutes shave a promising value proposition for transfusion services, because they hold the promise of increasing the availability of blood products and removing donor and contamination safety risks. In this article, the authors note that existing products suffer from critical shortcomings such as vasoactivity; they also point out that substitutes not based on human blood introduce potentially more complex safety hurdles," wrote C.S. Cohn and colleagues. The...
Source: Blood Weekly (2009-06-18)
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