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A new era in oxygen therapeutics? From perfluorocarbon systems to haemoglobin-based oxygen carriers

Nitin B Charbe1, Francisco Castillo2, Murtaza M Tambuwala3

  • 1Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Química y de Farmacia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago 7820436, Chile; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX 78363, USA.

Blood Reviews
|January 31, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
Blood transfusionHaemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs)Nitric oxide scavengingPerfluorocarbons (PFCs)Recombinant haemoglobinVasoconstriction

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