Sentences with phrase «with erythrocytes»

My particular field of expertise (or more correctly, least incompetence) was investigating interactions of the lithium ion with erythrocytes using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Structure of malaria invasion protein RH5 with erythrocyte basigin and blocking antibodies.

RH5 is a leading subunit vaccine candidate because anti-RH5 antibodies inhibit parasite growth and the interaction with its erythrocyte receptor basigin is essential for invasion.

Evidence of true infection with any erythrocyte - borne pathogen or rickettsial disease based upon blood smear, culture, convalescent IFA, or PCR

Not exact matches

Genetic Variants of the FADS1 FADS2 Gene Cluster Are Associated with Altered (n - 6) and (n - 3) Essential Fatty Acids in Plasma and Erythrocyte Phospholipids in Women during Pregnancy and in Breast Milk during Lactation

Lapillonne, A., Brossard, N., Claris, O., Reygrobellet, B., and Salle, B. L. Erythrocyte fatty acid composition in term infants fed human milk or a formula enriched with a low eicosapentanoic acid fish oil for 4 months.

It is also interesting to note that erythrocyte DHA concentrations decreased with age in the breast - fed infants in the control group, whereas there was no significant change in DHA status with time in the formula - fed infants in the control group.

The turkey erythrocyte model system was used earlier to show that a covalent modification of the receptor (phosphorylation) is associated with this process.

The functionality of the «desensitized» beta - adrenergic receptor was assessed by implanting purified beta - adrenergic receptor preparations from control and desensitized turkey erythrocytes into phospholipid mixtures and then fusing them with receptor - deficient cells (Xenopus laevis erythrocytes).

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated by centrifugation with 96 % Ficoll (BD), followed by erythrocyte lysis with ACK lysis buffer.

Minced samples were placed in HEPES - buffered DMEM (Invitrogen Corp.) supplemented with 10 mg / ml fatty acid — poor BSA (FAP - BSA; Sigma - Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, USA) and centrifuged at 1,000 g for 10 minutes at room temperature to pellet erythrocytes and other blood cells.

From this, PNH erythrocytes become increasingly coated with C3 fragments, turning them into tasty meals for cell - engulfing phagocytes, a specialized cell in the body's recycling system.

Spleen cells (3 × 107) from either experimental or control effector lymphocytes were dispensed into 75 - cm2 tissue culture flasks along with 20 ml of boosting medium and 6 × 105 γ - irradiated (3,000 rad) BALB / c spleen cells (erythrocytes lysed).

The work highlights the importance of fibrinogen - erythrocyte interactions in patients with chronic heart disease, and our technique can be used to identify patients at higher risk for this disease,» he tells nanotechweb.org.

Erythrocyte - shape evolution recorded with fast - measurement NMR diffusion - diffraction.

So say researchers in Lisbon, Portugal, who have used the technique to show that the interactions between a protein known as fibrinogen and erythrocytes (red blood cells) are modified in people with chronic heart failure.

«Using the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM), we have found that the mechanical force required to break the bond between fibrinogen and erythrocytes is higher in patients with chronic heart failure than in healthy subjects,» explains team leader Nuno C Santos from iMM and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon.

4.1 R is critical for the organisation and maintenance of the spectrin - sctin cytoskeleton in erythrocytes, via intereactions with intregral membrane proteins.

In the rare, life - threatening disease called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), patients are stricken with chronic anemia and blood clots, when the oldest part of the immune system — known as complement — turns against its own red blood cells, or erythrocytes.

Protein 4.1 R is a cytoskeletal protein first identified in erythrocytes and the neuronal homologues, 4.1 N and 4.1 G have been shown to interact with the GluA1 subunit (Shen et al 2000).

A genome - wide FST scan comparison with previous sequence data from an area in West Africa with higher infection endemicity indicates that regional gene flow prevents genetic isolation, but revealed allele frequency differentiation at three drug resistance loci and an erythrocyte invasion ligand gene.

In the work described here, we studied the role of the beta 1 subunit in erythrocytes and observed microcytic anemia with compensatory extramedullary hematopoiesis together with splenomegaly and increased osmotic resistance.

While erythrocyte invasion is a rapid process, the brief extracellular exposure of merozoites outside of their intra-erythrocytic niche places them in direct contact with host antibodies, which contribute to naturally acquired immunity to malaria [8, 9]; therefore, merozoite cell surface and secreted proteins have long been considered attractive targets for rational vaccine development.

The lead investigators, Dr. Zoltan Beck and Dr. Carl Alving, researchers with MHRP in the Division of Retrovirology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), explain that the data show that although infectious HIV - 1 virus particles that bind to red blood cells comprise only a small amount, perhaps as little as a mean of 2.3 % of a typical HIV - 1 preparation, erythrocyte - bound HIV - 1 is then approximately 100-fold more infectious than free (non-cell-bound) HIV - 1 for infection of target cells.

In searching the net I found this paper that seems to support your advice: Determination of fatty acid levels in erythrocyte membranes of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Erythrocyte, white blood cell, and platelet counts; hemoglobin concentrations; mean cell volumes; and mean cell hemoglobin concentrations were measured with the use of a Coulter automated cell counter (MAX - M; Beckman Coulter).

The complete blood count (CBC) from cats with heartworm infection may demonstrate anemia, nucleated erythrocytes (immature red blood cells), eosinoophila (increase number of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell) and basophilia (increase number of basophils, a type of white blood cell).

Wolfsheimer KJ, Peterson ME: Erythrocyte insulin receptors in dogs with spontaneous hyperadrenocorticism.

Most cats develop abnormal erythrocyte morphology (irregular shapes, poikilocytes) with acanthocytes being most common.