Sickle cell disease

GJ Kato, FB Piel, CD Reid, MH Gaston… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2018 - nature.com
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited disorders caused by mutations in HBB,
which encodes haemoglobin subunit β. The incidence is estimated to be between 300,000 …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging roles of lysophospholipids in health and disease

ST Tan, T Ramesh, XR Toh, LN Nguyen - Progress in Lipid Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Lipids are abundant and play essential roles in human health and disease. The main
functions of lipids are building blocks for membrane biogenesis. However, lipids are also …

COVID-19 infection alters kynurenine and fatty acid metabolism, correlating with IL-6 levels and renal status

T Thomas, D Stefanoni, JA Reisz, T Nemkov… - JCI …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Reprogramming of host metabolism supports viral pathogenesis by fueling
viral proliferation, by providing, for example, free amino acids and fatty acids as building …

Evidence of structural protein damage and membrane lipid remodeling in red blood cells from COVID-19 patients

T Thomas, D Stefanoni, M Dzieciatkowska… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The SARS-CoV-2 beta coronavirus is the etiological driver of COVID-19 disease, which is
primarily characterized by shortness of breath, persistent dry cough, and fever. Because they …

Red blood cell metabolism in vivo and in vitro

A D'Alessandro, AT Anastasiadi, VL Tzounakas… - Metabolites, 2023 - mdpi.com
Red blood cells (RBC) are the most abundant cell in the human body, with a central role in
oxygen transport and its delivery to tissues. However, omics technologies recently revealed …

Aggressive man‐made red blood cells for hypoxia‐resistant photodynamic therapy

WL Liu, T Liu, MZ Zou, WY Yu, CX Li, ZY He… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme hypoxia of tumors represents the most notable barrier against the advance of tumor
treatments. Inspired by the biological nature of red blood cells (RBCs) as the primary oxygen …

Erythrocyte metabolism

PN Chatzinikolaou, NV Margaritelis… - Acta …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Our aim is to present an updated overview of the erythrocyte metabolism highlighting its
richness and complexity. We have manually collected and connected the available …

Red blood cell membrane-enveloped O2 self-supplementing biomimetic nanoparticles for tumor imaging-guided enhanced sonodynamic therapy

C Li, XQ Yang, J An, K Cheng, XL Hou… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-invasive sonodynamic therapy (SDT) was developed because of its advantages of high
penetration depth and low side effects; however, tumor hypoxia greatly restricts its …

A novel strategy of constructing an artificial light-harvesting system based on a supramolecular organic framework for photocatalysis

Y Wang, CQ Ma, XL Li, RZ Dong, H Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A supramolecular organic framework (SOF) was fabricated based on the
tetraphenylethylene derivative MV-TPE with four methylated viologen units …

[HTML][HTML] Polychemotherapy with curcumin and doxorubicin via biological nanoplatforms: enhancing antitumor activity

M Ashrafizadeh, A Zarrabi, F Hashemi, A Zabolian… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Doxorubicin (DOX) is a well-known chemotherapeutic agent extensively applied in the field
of cancer therapy. However, similar to other chemotherapeutic agents such as cisplatin …