Lifestyle and health factors can also cause an increase in the red blood cell count. They include: Living at higher altitudes Cigarette smoking The use of performance-enhancing drugs, such as protein injections, anabolic steroids, or erythropoietin (EPO) The following are medical conditions that ...
(enzymes that damage the cell wall of bacteria) and work by digesting engulfed cell particles. An enzyme is a type of protein that helps produce chemical reactions in the body. When a granulocyte is released in the blood, it stays there for about four to twelve hours and then travels to ...
1A). DPN treatment did not result in weight reduction, in accordance with data assigning this phenotype to ERα. On the contrary, DPN-treated males and females exhibited a non-significant trend of increased weight gain, which was accompanied by a significant increase of fasting blood glucose ...
First, the safety of human UC-MSC transplantation was assessed by pathological sections of various organs in mice and the measurement of comprehensive blood indicators, and the results showed that human UC-MSC transplantation was safe and reliable in mice (Additional file 1: Fig. S6). ...
Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells and hematocrit is a measurement of the amount of red blood cells as related to total blood cell count. Both hemoglobin and hematocrit are used to diagnose anemia. Both hemoglobin and hematocrit can be measured from standard blood tests, and both value...
Hypertension (HTN) or high blood pressure, sometimes arterial hypertension, is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. This requires the heart to work harder than normal to circulate blood through the blood vessels. Blood pressure involves two ...
Inhibition of the NACHT, LRR and PYD domains-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome has recently emerged as a promising therapeutic target for several inflammatory diseases. After priming and activation by inflammation triggers, NLRP3 forms a complex with apoptosis-associated speck-like protein cont...
A larger prospective study is warranted to establish the utility of surveillance blood culture in allo-SCT recipients on corticosteroid therapy. In addition, blood culture tests are important in patients with even minor signs of infection, even if they are afebrile. Acknowledgments This work was ...
Global quantification of protein abundances in single cells could provide direct information on cellular phenotypes and complement transcriptomics measurements. However, single-cell proteomics is still immature and confronts many technical challenges. He
a5′ UTRs that modulate protein expression were ranked by their mean log2 ratios (compared with the control of unsorted cells) of the normalized barcode count in the three bins based on GFP expression. 5′ UTRs with a log2 ratio greater than 0.52 (which is highlighted as a red dotted li...