94 results about "HEMOGLOBIN I" patented technology

The invention provides compositions containing hemoglobin, particularly PEGylated hemoglobin. The PEGylated hemoglobin molecule is capable of transferring oxygen or carbon monoxide bound thereto to a tissue with which it is in proximity. Exemplary PEGylated hemoglobin formulations of the invention are virally inactivated. Various compositions of the invention include deoxygenated hemoglobin, which may be conjugated with one or more water-soluble polymer. PEGylated hemoglobin includes those species in which the iron atom of the hemoglobin molecule is not bound to oxygen or any other species, and hemoglobin molecules in which a species other than oxygen, e.g., carbon monoxide, is bound to the iron atom. The compositions of the invention are formulated as hypo-, iso- or hypertonic solutions of the PEGylated hemoglobin. The compositions are of use to treat and/or ameliorate disease, injury and insult by providing for the oxygenation of tissues and/organs.

This invention relates to the measurement of analytes in dried blood samples. It has been discovered by measuring the hemoglobin in the dissolved dried blood sample, an estimate of blood volume may be made and used to make a correction for blood volume. Thus, analytes such as cholesterol, PSA, and other blood analytes can be more accurately determined. The invention further describes a blood collection device and disk material on which blood is dried to provide superior results.

The present invention describes a serum-free medium that promotes the growth and differentiation of erythroid cells, cells that are highly transducible by a non-viral method and genes which increase the growth of erythroid cells and decrease their dependency on Epo. This invention can be used in the expansion of hematopoietic stem cells to produce cultures of erythroid cells as a source of erythroid-specific proteins such as hemoglobin. Hematopoietic stem cells are cultured ex vivo in a serum-free culture medium with the addition of IL-3, SCF and EPO. Cells transfected with the gene described in the present invention can be cultured in the serum-free culture medium with decreased dependency on Epo and other cytokines, thereby reducing the cost of the production of hemoglobin.

An organ perfusion apparatus and method monitor, sustain and/or restore viability of organs and preserve organs for storage and/or transport. Other apparatus include an organ transporter, an organ cassette and an organ diagnostic device. The method includes perfusing the organ at hypothermic and/or normothermic temperatures, preferably after hypothermic organ flushing for organ transport and/or storage. The method can be practiced with prior or subsequent static or perfusion hypothermic exposure of the organ. Organ viability is restored by restoring high energy nucleotide (e.g., ATP) levels by perfusing the organ with a medical fluid, such as an oxygenated cross-linked hemoglobin-based bicarbonate medical fluid, at normothermic temperatures. During the period in which the organ is preserved and/or maintained, various drug research and development may be performed on and/or with the organ. The organ may be perfused with a fluid containing a substance such as a test substance to obtain data regarding the organ, the substance and an interaction of the substance and the organ. The data may then be used to ultimately provide information regarding the drugs efficacy in support of regulatory filings for new drugs.

A method for measuring the absolute concentration of oxygenated and reduced hemoglobin in human tissue features that its sensor is composed of 2 photoelectric receiving tubes and at least 3 light sources with different wavelengths, which are arranged on a straight line at intervals. Said absolute concentration can be calculated out. Said light source can emit respectively red light and near infrared light.

The invention concerns a reagent for determination of leucocytes and measurement of haemoglobin in a sample of blood. This reagent comprises a buffer system that is suited to adjust selectively the pH of the reagent to an acidic value, at least one detergent of cationic type, a nitrogenous compound and, optionally, at least one inorganic salt. This reagent can be used in haematological analyses in human medicine and also permits the identification of a leucocytic subpopulation, in particular the basophil polymorphonuclear leucocytes.

The present invention provides an electrochemical detection method for content of glycosylated hemoglobin in the blood, and is characterized in that: whole blood specimen is diluted by combined liquid ranging from 30 times to 70 times and passes through a glycosylated protein recognizer, electric activated small molecules are filled into the effluent liquid from the glycosylated protein recognizer, and electrochemical response of the liquid is detected by chemically modified electrodes after the filling, thereby obtaining the concentration of the blood glucose. The glycosylated protein recognizer is eluted by elute solvent, and the electrochemical response of the elute solvent is detected and the concentration of the glycosylated hemoglobin is obtained, thereby obtaining the content of the glycosylated hemoglobin of the sample after calculation. As the electrochemical detection is simple in operation, lower in cost and rapid in the analysis, the present invention is expected to realize the rapid determination of the clinical glycosylated hemoglobin and the rapid determination of the glycosylated hemoglobin after separation and elution.

Methods are described for detecting and quantifying occult blood in a biological sample using laser desorption mass spectrometry (LD MS). Biological samples that can be analyzed using various embodiments of the present invention include stool (fecal occult blood, FOB), and any bodily fluid including urine, cerebrospinal fluid and other bodily fluids. If the heme or heme metabolite is bound to protein, the sample is treated with acid before analysis to release the porphyrin. Some of the methods use LD MS with a time of flight analyzer (TOF) to detect and measure unbound heme, other hemoglobin metabolites and other molecules that have a porphyrin-based structure, e.g., bilirubin, biliverdin, protoporphyrin IX, and Zinc protoporphyrin in the biological sample. In other methods, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI MS) is used to detect and quantify the individual α- and β-polypeptide chains of hemoglobin.

Inositol-tripyrophosphate is an allosteric effector of hemoglobin due to its ability to cross the plasma membrane of red blood cells and deliver oxygen to solid tumors, by lowering the oxygen affinity of the hemoglobin of red blood cells. The present invention is directed to the use of inositol-tripyrophosphate to reduce hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen in circulating red blood cells. The present invention is further directed to the use of inositol-tripyrophosphate to inhibit angiogenesis and enhance radiation sensitivity of hypoxic tumors. The present invention is further directed to the use of inositol-tripyrophosphate to enhance PO₂ in hypoxic tumors.

The present invention includes compositions containing carboxymethylated cross-linked hemoglobin where the cysteine moiety of the hemoglobin includes thiol protecting group and where the hemoglobin is incapable of binding with the nitric oxide. Preferably, the hemoglobin is deoxygenated, endotoxin free, and stroma free. The present invention also includes method of preparation, process of preparation and the method of supplementing blood in mammals.

The invention discloses a method for extracting hemoy lobin and superoxide dismutase from bloods of livestock, which comprises the steps that: after going through an anti-freezing treatment, the fresh bloods of livestock is centrifuged to collect corpuscles, and after hemolysis, heating treatment is carried out so as to extract the hemoy lobin and SOD crude extracted liquid; SOD refined products are obtained after the SOD crude extracted liquid goes through treatments of thermal denaturation, super-filtration concentration, fractionated precipitation of acetone and absorption by ion exchanger. The method of the invention has simple operation and low production cost, is suitable for large-scale industrialized production, and can be used for simultaneously extracting the SOD and hemoy lobin in the bloods of livestock, thereby achieving the highly effective recovery of a plurality of protein resources from the blood of livestock. The extracted hemoy lobin contains salts such as sodium chloride and potassium chloride, etc which are harmless to the human body without containing copper ions. Therefore, the extracted hemoy lobin can be served as food for human beings and livestock, and also can be used for further producing hemoy lobin products such as hemachrome and decolored globin, etc.

The invention discloses a cross-linked hemoglobin preparation method, wherein the preparation method comprises the following steps: a, diluting deoxidized hemoglobin, and adding the diluted deoxidizedhemoglobin into an anaerobic reactor; b, arranging an atomizer at the top of the anaerobic reactor, adding a cross-linking agent into the reactor through the atomizer, and carrying out a cross-linking reaction; and c, adding a reducing agent to terminate the cross-linking reaction, and removing the unreacted cross-linking agent and the terminating reducing agent in an ultrafiltration liquid changing manner to obtain the cross-linked hemoglobin. The cross-linked hemoglobin prepared by the preparation method contains low contents of macromolecules (greater than 500 kD) and micromolecules (lessthan 64 kD); by adding the cross-linked hemoglobin into organ perfusate, the phenomena of organ acidosis and lysosomal enzyme activation adverse consequences caused by lack of an oxygen carrying agentin conventional perfusate and cell damage caused by excessive free radicals generated during reperfusion can be solved, and the perfusate is quite simple and convenient to prepare, store, transport and use.

The functional characteristics of heme proteins can be modified to produce hemoglobins that can be used as blood substitutes in different therapeutic applications. Stable polymers of tetrameric hemoglobin, and of myoglobin molecules, are provided for use in the blood substitutes.

There are provided biocompatible chemical compositions having oxygen transporting capability and comprising oxygen transporting molecules chemically bound to antioxidants, to form compositions capable of protecting a mammalian body from oxidative damage. An example of a composition according to the invention is hemoglobin covalently coupled to a 6-hydroxy chroman carboxylic acid, such as Trolox.

The present invention relates to mixed calcium/sodium salt of inositol tripyrophosphate, methods of preparing and methods of use. The mixed calcium/sodium salt may be a monocalcium tetrasodium salt of inositol tripyrophosphate. Methods of use include administering the above salts in an effective amount to treat diseases caused by hypoxia or other conditions associated with inadequate function of the lungs or circulatory system, such as various types of cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

Disclosed is a hemolysis reagent composition for the quantitative analysis of glycated hemoglobin (HbAlc) via an enzymatic method. The hemolysis reagent compositions of the present invention containing a zwitterionic surfactant and a nitrous compound considerably accelerate hemolysis rate due to the presence of the zwitterionic surfactant, and also induce the N-terminal β-chain of hemoglobin released by hemolysis to be exposed to the outside of the hemoglobin molecule and assists the participation of a greater number of molecules in the reaction, thereby improving reaction sensitivity and reaction rate of the glycated hemoglobin, and the nitrous compound makes the protein structure of the hemoglobin flexibly modified so that the amino acid sequence of the N-terminal β-chain of hemoglobin can be readily cut off, thereby significantly reducing the entire time required for the measurement and improving the accuracy of the measurement.

The invention relates to the biotechnology field, in particular to a glycated hemoglobin detection kit. The glycated hemoglobin detection kit comprises a reagent R1 and a reagent R2, wherein the reagent R1 is prepared from rubber latex, a buffer solution A and a surfactant; and the reagent R2 is prepared from an anti-body, a buffer solution B and the surfactant. The kit can eliminate influences ofindividual hemoglobin content difference in glycated hemoglobin detection, is good in stability, and is convenient to use and store.