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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Blood donor"”.
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Blood Donor Genotyping
Transfusion of blood is one of the oldest and most widely used clinical interventions. In 2020 the World Health Organisation reported that globally 118.5 million blood donations had been collected worldwide. This blood will be used to provide life-saving transfusion support for millions of …
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Epidemiology of blood donor health in the context of increased frequency of donation: The INTERVAL trial
Blood donation is central to maintaining adequate blood supply for routine hospital demands and ensuring preparedness for emergency situations. As blood donation is a voluntary activity, it is important that blood collection services ensure that blood donor health is not negatively impacted in the …
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Blood Bank Management Information System
… proven that no human being can survive without blood. It is for this reason that blood banks were introduced; to help in the collecting, separating, and storing blood. A blood bank is a place for stocking blood donations from donors. To provide web based communication there are numbers of online …
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Chagas disease, need and progress made in implementing donor blood screening in the United States.
… or mucosa to infected feces from a reduviid bug, blood transfusion or congenitally. It is estimated that there are between 50,000-100,000 infected individuals in the United States.\r\nMethods: This is a narrative review of medical and veterinary literature published in peer reviewed journals in …
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Information Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
… intervention. Both genders report discussing a blood donor in preparation for delivery.</p>
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Effects of blood donation and iron homeostasis on medium and long term cardiometabolic outcomes
… several decades of research, the relevance of blood donation and iron homeostasis on cardiometabolic outcomes remains unclear. Objectives. This thesis aims to reliably characterise the relevance of blood donation and iron homeostasis on cardiometabolic outcomes while overcoming some limitations …
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The Blood Drive of WKU Greek Week: Issues of Altruism, Egoism, Integration and Separation
This thesis focuses on the Blood Drive which takes place during the spring Greek Week event at Western Kentucky University. I primarily investigate the varying methods of negotiating issues of altruism and egoism in terms of the Blood Drive as well as way that the Blood Drive fits into the WKU …
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Bloody geographies: relating, connecting, giving and caring in blood donation and transfusion
… giving, care, and relatedness felt by blood donors and recipients, given the institutional setting of therapeutic blood exchange in the UK. In it, I use a multi-sited auto-ethnographic approach to examine five blood donor-/recipient-participant views on blood donation and transfusion. …
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Some Aspects of the Biochemistry of Malabsorption from the Upper Intestinal Tract
… found is be significantly lower than those of blood donor normals. The levels found correlated with the degree of ileal disease. Surgical intervention in any area of the gastrointestinal tract produced a lowering of serum levels. Vitamin E levels were not correlated with haemoglobin or MCV. …
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Immunomodulatory effects exerted by Lactobacillus salivarius strains on innate immune cells
… and mouse strain-dependent, cell type-dependent, blood donor-dependent and bacterial cell number-dependent. Collectively, these data suggest the importance of a case-by-case selection of candidate strains for their potential therapeutic application. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize …
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A genealogy of the gift : blood donation in London, 1921-1946
… thesis discusses the historical association of blood donation with narratives of 'the gift'. It is a history of blood-giving in London between the emergence of the city's first voluntary blood donor panel in 1921 and the establishment of the National Blood Transfusion Service in 1946, and …
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Habits, hassle, and health: how do blood donors respond to a temporary deferral due to low haemoglobin?
This thesis explored the impact on whole blood donors of a six month deferral from giving blood due to a low haemoglobin (Hb) concentration. The aims were two-fold: first, to quantify the effect of a temporary deferral on donation patterns once eligible to return, and second, to identify the …
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A Future Once Deferred: Re-envisioning Men Who Have Sex With Men as Prospective Blood Donors
… men who have sex with men (MSM) as a prospective blood donor population in New Zealand, at a time when international and local policy is shifting toward individualised assessments. Three overarching aims guide this work: to descriptively characterize MSM with different donation experiences; to …
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Establishing locally derived reference intervals for full blood count parameters and white cell differential counts in the Western Cape region of South Africa
… To establish locally derived RIs for full blood count (FBC) and white blood cell (WBC) differential count parameters in healthy adults in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Methods: A prospective, descriptive study was performed, utilizing blood samples of healthy first-time blood …
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Investigating and exploiting the latency-associated expression of the human cytomegalovirus gene US28 in early myeloid lineage cells.
… infected monocytes from a healthy, seropositive blood donor. Finally, during my investigations into the role of US28 during HCMV latency, a mass spectrometry screen was performed to measure changes in cellular protein expression when US28 protein is expressed in isolation, in THP-1 monocyte-like …
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Investigation into the causal effect of iron metabolism on cardiovascular disease
… analysis in 39,000 participants of the INTERVAL blood donor trial, led to discovery of associations with genetic variants at 26 novel loci for serum iron, ferritin, transferrin, TS and soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), providing new instruments for MR analysis. A new MR analysis of serum iron, …
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Extent of genotype-specific humoral immunity produced on infection with hepatitis C virus: relevance for serological screening and diagnosis
Blood transfusion services around the world screen donations for antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV). One potential problem of this is that the antibody response only becomes detectable several weeks after infection and potentially infectious donations in the "window period" go undetected. The …
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A study of the immune response to human papillomavirus types causing cervical cancer
… assay (ELISA) in the serum of children, female blood donors, and patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). A significant association with CIN was found for IgG antibodies to an E2 peptide (E2-16, P = 0.039) and HPV-16 virus-like particles (VLP-16, P = 0.002). This association was …
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