Phenylhydrazine Induced Haematotoxicity and Its Amelioration by Ethanolic Extract of Momordica charantia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (28) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Ethanolic Extract ◽  
Momordica Charantia ◽  
Actual Form

Abstract-It has been established that several plants serve as haemoprotective agents. The mechanism is that they bind to the oxidative radicalswhichisproducedduringthehaemolysis of red blood cells and the binding restores the actual form of these cells. This way, the degenerative effect of plants as the blood is ameliorated by plants. In our study, phenyl hydrazinecausedsignificantanaemiainCharles Foster rats which was recovered by ethanolic extract of Momordica charantia.

Effects of the Ethanolic Extract of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.) I.M. Johnst. on Hbs Red Blood Cells In Vitro

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
CM Cyril-Olutayo ◽  
JM Agbedahunsi
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Sickle Cell ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Sickle Cell Anaemia ◽  
Radical Scavenging ◽  
Ethanolic Extract ◽  
Membrane Stability ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Cnidoscolus Aconitifolius

Sickle cell disorder (SCD) is the commonest haemoglobinopathy amongst the people living in sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria has the highest prevalence rate in the world with rates varying between 1.5-3%. Medicinal plants have been used in the treatment of painful crises associated with sickle cell disease (SCD) especially among the lower socio-economic class who cannot afford the high cost of western medicine. Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.) I.M. Johnst. is one of such plants used traditionally in the management of sickle cell anaemia hence the need to prove this claim scientifically. The leaves of C. aconitifolius (CA) were harvested, dried and extracted with different solvents using soxhlet extraction and maceration methods. The ethanolic extract was used for the antisickling, the membrane stability and the antioxidant assays. CA gave an antisickling activity significantly higher than that of Ciklavit®, the positive control (p < 0.05) and gave 96.82 ± 0.009% rate of decrease in polymerization (%RDP) at 4mg/ml. The extract caused a concentration dependent membrane stability of HbS red blood cells in vivo and also showed an increase in free radical scavenging activities as concentration increased..Keywords: Sickle cell Anaemia, Antisickling, Polymerization, Membrane Stability

Hemoglobin crystals of the red blood cells in the human renal cortex: electron microscopic observations of the renal lithiasis

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-481
Author(s):  
Kosuke Ueda ◽  
Hiroto Washida ◽  
Nakazo Watari
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Renal Cortex ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
Osmic Acid ◽  
Renal Lithiasis ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Hemoglobin C ◽  
First Case ◽  
Ultrathin Sections

IntroductionHemoglobin crystals in the red blood cells were electronmicroscopically reported by Fawcett in the cat myocardium. In the human, Lessin revealed crystal-containing cells in the periphral blood of hemoglobin C disease patients. We found the hemoglobin crystals and its agglutination in the erythrocytes in the renal cortex of the human renal lithiasis, and these patients had no hematological abnormalities or other diseases out of the renal lithiasis. Hemoglobin crystals in the human erythrocytes were confirmed to be the first case in the kidney.Material and MethodsTen cases of the human renal biopsies were performed on the operations of the seven pyelolithotomies and three ureterolithotomies. The each specimens were primarily fixed in cacodylate buffered 3. 0% glutaraldehyde and post fixed in osmic acid, dehydrated in graded concentrations of ethanol, and then embedded in Epon 812. Ultrathin sections, cut on LKB microtome, were doubly stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate.

Densitometric Identification of Primitive Erythroblasts After Reaction With Diaminobenzidine

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 328-329
Author(s):  
John A. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Specific Protein ◽  
Visual Examination ◽  
Hemoglobin Synthesis ◽  
Peroxidatic Activity ◽  
Small Density

Hemoglobin is the specific protein of red blood cells. Those cells in which hemoglobin synthesis is initiated are the earliest cells that can presently be considered to be committed to erythropoiesis. In order to identify such early cells electron microscopically, we have made use of the peroxidatic activity of hemoglobin by reacting the marrow of erythropoietically stimulated guinea pigs with diaminobenzidine (DAB). The reaction product appeared as a diffuse and amorphous electron opacity throughout the cytoplasm of reactive cells. The detection of small density increases of such a diffuse nature required an analytical method more sensitive and reliable than the visual examination of micrographs. A procedure was therefore devised for the evaluation of micrographs (negatives) with a densitometer (Weston Photographic Analyzer).

Scanning electron microscopy of erythrophagocytosis by Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 880-881
Author(s):  
Victor Tsutsumi ◽  
Adolfo Martinez-Palomo ◽  
Kyuichi Tanikawa
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Entamoeba Histolytica ◽  
Causative Agent ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Protozoan Parasite ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Great Capacity ◽  
Scanning Electron

The protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica is the causative agent of amebiasis in man. The trophozoite or motile form is a highly dynamic and pleomorphic cell with a great capacity to destroy tissues. Moreover, the parasite has the singular ability to phagocytize a variety of different live or death cells. Phagocytosis of red blood cells by E. histolytica trophozoites is a complex phenomenon related with amebic pathogenicity and nutrition.

Ultrastructural observations on the in vitro cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum infected red blood cells

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 914-915
Author(s):  
D.J.P. Ferguson ◽  
A.R. Berendt ◽  
J. Tansey ◽  
K. Marsh ◽  
C.I. Newbold
Keyword(s):  
Plasmodium Falciparum ◽  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Umbilical Vein ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Amelanotic Melanoma ◽  
Cytoplasmic Process ◽  
Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

In human malaria, the most serious clinical manifestation is cerebral malaria (CM) due to infection with Plasmodium falciparum. The pathology of CM is thought to relate to the fact that red blood cells containing mature forms of the parasite (PRBC) cytoadhere or sequester to post capillary venules of various tissues including the brain. This in vivo phenomenon has been studied in vitro by examining the cytoadherence of PRBCs to various cell types and purified proteins. To date, three Ijiost receptor molecules have been identified; CD36, ICAM-1 and thrombospondin. The specific changes in the PRBC membrane which mediate cytoadherence are less well understood, but they include the sub-membranous deposition of electron-dense material resulting in surface deformations called knobs. Knobs were thought to be essential for cytoadherence, lput recent work has shown that certain knob-negative (K-) lines can cytoadhere. In the present study, we have used electron microscopy to re-examine the interactions between K+ PRBCs and both C32 amelanotic melanoma cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC).We confirm previous data demonstrating that C32 cells possess numerous microvilli which adhere to the PRBC, mainly via the knobs (Fig. 1). In contrast, the HUVEC were relatively smooth and the PRBCs appeared partially flattened onto the cell surface (Fig. 2). Furthermore, many of the PRBCs exhibited an invagination of the limiting membrane in the attachment zone, often containing a cytoplasmic process from the endothelial cell (Fig. 2).

Phagocytosis of opsonized red blood cells by hepatocytes after gene transfer of chimeric Fc γR III Aα and γcDNA

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A356-A357
Author(s):  
M FURUKAWA ◽  
Y MAGAMI ◽  
D NAKAYAMA ◽  
F MORIYASU ◽  
J PARK ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Transfer ◽  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells
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