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...
Main Authors: | Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Augustin C. Moţ, Violeta-Florina Scurtu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2013-07-01
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Series: | Pharmaceuticals |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/6/7/867 |
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