Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin
Reviewed here are recent attempts to produce protein-based artificial oxygen carriers (“blood substitutes”). Most of these involve chemical or physical modifications on hemoglobin, although a recent line of research using hemerythrin instead of hemoglobin is also described. The focus is set on the e...
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| author | Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu Augustin C. Moţ Violeta-Florina Scurtu |
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| description | Reviewed here are recent attempts to produce protein-based artificial oxygen carriers (“blood substitutes”). Most of these involve chemical or physical modifications on hemoglobin, although a recent line of research using hemerythrin instead of hemoglobin is also described. The focus is set on the extent to which these modifications alter the redox reactivity of the proteins, and on ways in which this can be done systematically and purposefully, within the framework of a working hypothesis where redox side-reactions hold an important role in the physiological outcome of experimental transfusions with artificial oxygen carriers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47aa727605644b568ec0d0d4dd800e2c2022-12-21T23:25:38ZengMDPI AGPharmaceuticals1424-82472013-07-016786788010.3390/ph6070867Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond HemoglobinRadu Silaghi-DumitrescuAugustin C. MoţVioleta-Florina ScurtuReviewed here are recent attempts to produce protein-based artificial oxygen carriers (“blood substitutes”). Most of these involve chemical or physical modifications on hemoglobin, although a recent line of research using hemerythrin instead of hemoglobin is also described. The focus is set on the extent to which these modifications alter the redox reactivity of the proteins, and on ways in which this can be done systematically and purposefully, within the framework of a working hypothesis where redox side-reactions hold an important role in the physiological outcome of experimental transfusions with artificial oxygen carriers.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/6/7/867hemoglobinblood substituteoxidative stress |
| spellingShingle | Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu Augustin C. Moţ Violeta-Florina Scurtu Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin Pharmaceuticals hemoglobin blood substitute oxidative stress |
| title | Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin |
| title_full | Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin |
| title_fullStr | Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin |
| title_short | Protein-Based Blood Substitutes: Recent Attempts at Controlling Pro-Oxidant Reactivity with and Beyond Hemoglobin |
| title_sort | protein based blood substitutes recent attempts at controlling pro oxidant reactivity with and beyond hemoglobin |
| topic | hemoglobin blood substitute oxidative stress |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/6/7/867 |
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