Article
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-t...
Topics
- Blood Platelets
- Blood Viscosity
- Cell Adhesion
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Erythrocytes, Abnormal
- Genotype
- Hemoglobin E
- Hemoglobinopathies
- Hemoglobins, Abnormal
- Hospitals, University
- Humans
- Splenectomy
- Thailand
- alpha-Thalassemia
- beta-Thalassemia