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Interaction between endothelial cells and thalassemic red cells in vitro.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Jan 1992
Butthep P, Bunyaratvej A, Kitaguchi H, Funahara Y, Fucharoen S
Abstract excerpt
Erythrocytes from 45 patients with thalassemia and/or hemoglobinopathies were studied for their cytoadherence property to the vascular endothelial cells in vitro. In plasma free medium, erythrocytes from patients with beta-thal/Hb E both splenectomized and nonsplenectomized, HbH diseases (alpha-thal 1/alpha-thal 2 and alpha-thal 1/Hb Constant Spring genotypes) and homozygous Hb E subjects bind to endothelial...
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