Abstract

ALFONSO VALDES, María Elena. Blood substitutes. Rev Cubana Hematol Inmunol Hemoter [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.2, pp. 90-97. ISSN 1561-2996.

Blood substitutes, many of them still under development, may be in a near future an important therapeutic tool capable of substituting the use of allogeneic blood components, which will avoid the risk of using them. Among these blood substitutes, there are red cell, platelet and plasma substitutes obtained from human blood, blood of transgenic animals or by recombinant technology. A brief description of each of them and of the stage of development and clinical application in which they are is made. The growth factors, which are also useful on stimulating the growth and differentiation of hematopoietic cells are not approached in this review

Keywords : BLOOD SUBSTITUTES [analysis]; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES [analysis].

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