Red cell transfusion therapy is a common treatment modality in contemporary medical
practice. Although blood collection and administration is safer and more efficient than ever …

Stored blood components are a critical life-saving tool provided to patients by health
services worldwide. Red cells may be stored for up to 42 days, allowing for efficient blood …

Aims Total haemoglobin mass (tot‐Hb) increases during high‐altitude acclimatization.
Normalization of tot‐Hb upon descent is thought to occur via neocytolysis, the selective …

Background/Aims: The exposure of phosphatidylserine (PS) on the outer membrane leaflet
of red blood cells (RBCs) serves as a signal for suicidal erythrocyte death or eryptosis, which …

The currently available data suggest that efforts toward improving the quality of red blood
cell (RBC) blood bank products should concentrate on:(1) preventing the removal of a …

A selective lysis of relatively young erythrocytes (neocytolysis), together with a decrease of
erythropoietin (EPO) production, has been described in polycythemic, high altitude …

Red blood cell research is important for both, the clinical haematology, such as transfusion
medicine or anaemia investigations, and the basic research fields like exploring general …

The aim of our experiments was to characterise and to validate the osmotic fragility test
when applied to human blood samples with no significant alterations of osmotic fragility but …

Neocytolysis is the hypothesis formulated to explain experimental evidence of selective lysis
of young red blood cells (RBCs)(neocytes) associated with decreased plasma levels of …

Background It has long been known that red blood cells comprise various subpopulations,
which can be separated through Percoll density gradients. Materials and methods In this …