Red blood cells (RBCs) are a specialised organ that enabled the evolution of multicellular
organisms by supplying a sufficient quantity of oxygen to cells that cannot obtain oxygen …

Red blood cells (RBCs) units are the most requested transfusion product worldwide.
Indications for transfusion include symptomatic anaemia, acute sickle cell crisis, and acute …

Red blood cell (RBC) deformability is important for tissue perfusion and a key determinant of
blood rheology. Diseases such as diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and malaria, as well as …

The oxygen content in the blood may decrease under the influence of various
physicochemical factors and different diseases. The state of hypoxemia is especially …

This study aims to investigate the effects of hypoxically stored Red Blood Cells (RBCs) in a
rat model of traumatic brain injury followed by severe hemorrhagic shock (HS) and …

Mechanical biomarkers distinguish health conditions through quantitative mechanical
measurements. The emergence and establishment of nanotechnology in the last decades …

Abstract Changes in red blood cell (RBC) morphology distribution have emerged as a
quantitative biomarker for the degradation of RBC functional properties during hypothermic …

Oxidative lesions start accumulating in cells when the oxidant attacks overwhelm the
antioxidant defenses. This review will briefly describe red blood cell storage lesions with …

Transfusion of healthy red blood cells (RBCs) is a lifesaving process. However, upon storing
RBCs, a wide range of damage-associate molecular patterns (DAMPs), such as cell-free …

Ektacytometry has been the primary method for evaluating deformability of red blood cells
(RBCs) in both research and clinical settings. This study was designed to test the hypothesis …