Often a definitive diagnosis is confirmed only after repeat testing of the patient later in infancy since an older infant would have increased numbers of adult erythrocytes.

Erythrocytes, lymphocytes, granulocytes, and megakaryocytes (platelets) all originate from the same common progenitors called pleuripotent stem cells, [1, 4, 5] however, only RBC development is ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

Exported proteins of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum interact with proteins of the erythrocyte membrane and induce substantial changes in the morphology, physiology and function of the ...

A variety of other pathophysiological mechanisms have been proposed including inhibition of red blood cell (RBC) enzymes (6) and direct erythrocyte membrane damage resulting in reduced ATP ...

As detailed below, we found that α-helical folding and the associated membrane-disruptive antimicrobial effects could be preserved upon introducing up to five peptoid units in the sequence, resulting ...

Furthermore, all of the metal-containing PIL membranes present low hemolysis toward human red blood cell and high long-term antibacterial stability, even after immersion in water for 90 days, ...