scholarly journals Effects of low power violet laser irradiation on red blood cells volume and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in human blood

Author(s):  
Mustafa S. Al Musawi ◽  
M. S. Jafaar ◽  
Naser M. Ahmed ◽  
B. T. Al-Gailani ◽  
Fatanah M. Suhaimi
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 690-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Kernick ◽  
A. W. L. Jay ◽  
S. Rowlands ◽  
L. Skibo

Rouleau formation was measured by an adaptation of an old method used by Ponder (1927, Q. J. Exp. Physiol. 16, 173–194). Blood was depleted of red cells to a low hematocrit. It was stirred under standardized conditions, and after various times, samples were examined by microscope. Mean rouleau length was taken as an index of rouleau formation. The method was used to observe changes of rouleau formation with time and temperature and with variations in erythrocyte sedimentation rate (E.S.R.). Under these experimental conditions, mean rouleau length increases with time up to 40 min. Over a range of hematocrit values between 0 and 4%, rouleau length is a linear function of hematocrit. At higher hematocrits random aggregations based on columnar units are seen. Rouleau formation is temperature dependent and maximum mean rouleau length occurs around 37 °C. Subjects with a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate tend to form long rouleaux. By exchanging red blood cells (R.B.C.) between two ABO Rh compatible patients with greatly differing E.S.R. and mean rouleau length, it was shown that the agent responsible was in the plasma and not on the R.B.C. The results were compared with a theory of aggregation which proved inadequate in some respects.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
L. Yu. Karpenko ◽  
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P. A. Polistovskaya ◽  
A. I. Enukashvili ◽  
A. B. Balykina ◽  
...  

The article is devoted to the assessment of the toxic effects of cadmium acetate on fish. The research topic is relevant, since heavy metals, and especially cadmium, are ones of the most dangerous pollutants for the aquatic environment. After the emission of the already used water by the electricity-power plants into the reservoirs of circulating wa-ter, a sharp increase in the maximum permit-ted concentrations of heavy substances can be observed often, which act on hydrobi-onts for a rather short period of time. That is why, modeling this effect is necessary to study the effects of heavy metals. The aim of the assay was to study the hematological parameters of carp after exposure to various concentrations of cadmium acetate. During the experiment, 5 groups of fish were formed - 1 control group (10 fish), 4 experimental groups - 10 fish each. The experimental groups of fish were exposed in a solution of cadmium acetate (Cd (CH3COO) 2) with concentrations of 0.05 mg / l, 0.5 mg / l, 5 mg / l, 50 mg / l (exceeding the maximum permissible concentration of cadmium for fisheries in 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 times respectively). We have investigated: the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, the number of red blood cells in the blood and the con-centration of hemoglobin in the blood. Dur-ing the study, the authors noted an increase in the erythrocyte sedimentation rate due to the formation of conglomerates of blood cells with plasma proteins, as well as a de-crease in the number of red blood cells due to the toxic effect of cadmium acetate. A decrease in the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood was also observed, probably associated with a decrease in the number of red blood cells due to their lysis. With an increase in the concentration of the metal under study, there is a significant increase in ESR, a decrease in the level of hemoglobin and the number of red blood cells.


Biomolecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 727
Author(s):  
Antonia Rabe ◽  
Alexander Kihm ◽  
Alexis Darras ◽  
Kevin Peikert ◽  
Greta Simionato ◽  
...  

Background: Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is a rare hereditary neurodegenerative disease with deformed red blood cells (RBCs), so-called acanthocytes, as a typical marker of the disease. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was recently proposed as a diagnostic biomarker. To date, there is no treatment option for affected patients, but promising therapy candidates, such as dasatinib, a Lyn-kinase inhibitor, have been identified. Methods: RBCs of two ChAc patients during and after dasatinib treatment were characterized by the ESR, clinical hematology parameters and the 3D shape classification in stasis based on an artificial neural network. Furthermore, mathematical modeling was performed to understand the contribution of cell morphology and cell rigidity to the ESR. Microfluidic measurements were used to compare the RBC rigidity between ChAc patients and healthy controls. Results: The mechano-morphological characterization of RBCs from two ChAc patients in an off-label treatment with dasatinib revealed differences in the ESR and the acanthocyte count during and after the treatment period, which could not directly be related to each other. Clinical hematology parameters were in the normal range. Mathematical modeling indicated that RBC rigidity is more important for delayed ESR than cell shape. Microfluidic experiments confirmed a higher rigidity in the normocytes of ChAc patients compared to healthy controls. Conclusions: The results increase our understanding of the role of acanthocytes and their associated properties in the ESR, but the data are too sparse to answer the question of whether the ESR is a suitable biomarker for treatment success, whereas a correlation between hematological and neuronal phenotype is still subject to verification.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (05) ◽  
pp. 4472-4473
Author(s):  
Kane Genser, MD ◽  
Charles R. Spillert PhD

The clumping of circulating blood cells in many diseases gives rise to serious complications.  The sed-rate has been used to monitor blood for these changes. The protective low molecular weight agent used in this study was found to suppress the elevated sed-rate values.


1927 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-145

Session 9/Xll 1926. Prof. N. K. Goryaev: To estimate the content of white blood cells by smear (Schtzung). The report will be printed in "Kaz. Med. Jour.". Drs. N. Zakharov, N. Kudryashev and M. Aksyantsev: Experience in comparative study of immunobiological reactions in tbc clinic. Report, to be printed in Kaz. Med. Jour. Prof. P. N. Nikolaev pointed out about the report that it is impossible to perform all reactions studied by the reporters at the patient's bedside and that the doctor should never forget the personality of the patient in his work. Prof. N. K. Goryaev noted that a big drawback of the report was the lack of description of the clinical picture of the cases studied, as well as the fact that in parallel with the reactions studied the blood picture was not given. To study erythrocyte sedimentation rate Prof. Goryaev considers the Linzeamier's methodology inconvenient. In addition, Drs. Mastbaum and Aksyantsev commented on the reports.


1942 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Shedlovsky ◽  
John Scudder

Electrophoretic studies and erythrocyte sedimentation rate measurements were carried out on normal and pathological human blood. An increase in α globulin levels appears to take place, as well as an increase in sedimentation rates, when there is present any considerable inflammation or tissue destruction, irrespective of its cause. A graphic correlation is presented between sedimentation rates and α globulin levels, which is at least as good as a similar correlation involving fibrinogen levels.


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